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Re:If you want to learn Lisp, be ready to meet the scowling ... by herdrick on Tuesday June 19, 2007 @11:57PM (#29413)
Great call, Alex. That's one of my favorite books ever. I blogged this here: http://herdrick.blogspot.com/2006/03/what-all-books-ought-to-be.html
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Re:If you want to learn Lisp, be ready to meet the scowling ... by Alex3917 on Wednesday June 20, 2007 @12:04AM (#29417)
Good post. The only other Socratic book I own is "What is Calculus about" by W.W. Sawyer. It's more loosely Socratic though. There are paragraphs of text interspersed with questions that either ask you to look for a pattern, or else follow a statement to its logical conclusion.

Not as good as The Little Schemer, but it's still cool that you can learn traditional (non-lambda) calc knowing only addition and subtraction.

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