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Re:Why I Don't Love Gödel, Escher, Bach by BadThink6655321 on Thursday July 05, 2018 @09:58AM (#17463272)
“... but nobody I know has actually managed to finish it.“

I’ve read it cover to cover, twice. It’s not a bad book, but it would have helped if he had used the Lambda calculus. YMMV.

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Re:Why I Don't Love Gödel, Escher, Bach by core-questions on Thursday July 05, 2018 @12:40PM (#17464685)
Would that have helped the non-mathematicians that read it? I'm in that camp and never quite grasped the whole Lambda thing.

(Maybe you know of something I could read that would fix that?)

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Re:Why I Don't Love Gödel, Escher, Bach by westoncb on Thursday July 05, 2018 @10:55PM (#17468528)
Best resource I've found is a book called "Introduction to Functional Programming through Lambda Calculus": https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Functional-Programming-C...
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