Ask news.YC: For the lisp experts - tell me how you learned the language.

Re:Ask news.YC: For the lisp experts - tell me how you lear... by centipede on Sunday September 23, 2007 @04:51PM (#58612)

There was a book by Hofstadter (of Godel, Escher, Bach fame) which has a nice introduction. Perhaps the book was called Metamagicum.

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Re:Ask news.YC: For the lisp experts - tell me how you lear... by jey on Sunday September 23, 2007 @04:59PM (#58614)

Are you referring to Metamagical Themas? That book is a collection of columns he wrote for Scientific American, and only a couple of those have anything to do with Lisp.

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Re:Ask news.YC: For the lisp experts - tell me how you lear... by eru on Monday September 24, 2007 @04:30AM (#58808)

Yes, I refer to those. They have been my first contact with Lisp. The Wizard Book (SICP) was useful later on.

I did only remember the German title (Metamagicum). Thanks for finding the English one.

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