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Hofstadter on Lisp (1983)

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372 points Eric_WVGG | 2 comments | 16 Oct 24 13:44 UTC | HN request time: 0.558s | source
1. dunefox ◴[16 Oct 24 16:31 UTC] No.41861035[source]▶
> I hope you enjoyed Hofstadter's idiosyncratic tour of Lisp. You can find more like this re-printed in his book Metamagical Themas.

This seems like an interesting book.

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2. ceautery ◴[16 Oct 24 20:04 UTC] No.41863243[source]▶
It was one of my favorites back in the 1980s. It was a followup to Gödel Escher Bach, written in much the same style.