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Re:Alan Kay's Reading List by kikibobo69 on Sunday April 06, 2014 @06:07PM (#7543299)
Care to recommend some alternatives?
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Re:Alan Kay's Reading List by delian66 on Monday April 07, 2014 @12:13PM (#7547354)
I do not understand ... please, can you elaborate what is the connection between GEB (which I presume is 'Gödel, Escher, Bach') and for example the "Learn you a Haskell" book ? They are both good books, but I do not think that books about programming languages are suitable alternatives to GEB.
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Re:Alan Kay's Reading List by coolsunglasses on Monday April 07, 2014 @12:46PM (#7547624)
Strange loops come up all the time in Haskell.

Cf. loeb

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Blow_your_mind#Other

Understanding type theory and set theory is a common side effect of learning Haskell and are critical in understanding Godel.

Also there's never a bad time to learn Haskell.

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Re:Alan Kay's Reading List by GregBuchholz on Monday April 07, 2014 @12:04AM (#7544575)
I liked _Godel's Theorem Simplified_

http://www.amazon.com/Godels-Theorem-Simplified-Harry-Gensle...

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Re:Alan Kay's Reading List by xrt on Sunday April 06, 2014 @07:42PM (#7543762)
LISP 1.5 manual (MITPress)
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