fnu lnu's List: computation theory

• mathematics
• nature
• Visual Complex Analysis by Tristan Needham
• John Whitney’s incremental drift

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• gestural composition

• lambda calculus

• Roger Dannenberg's Functional Programming for Signal Processing. Dannenberg has written an XLisp-based digital audio synthesis and processing system called Nyquist.
• Last up was John McCarthy.
• If someone was to drop a bomb on this building, it would wipe out 50 percent of the Lisp community. That would probably be a good thing. It would allow Lisp to start over.

  • a sticky note added in "diigo::my bookmarks"

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• book which has been called the best book on programming ever - Peter Norvig's Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming - Case Studies in Common Lisp. I have read SICP but
• Its about the progression of a Lisp programmer - the newbie realizes that the difference between code and data is trivial. The expert realizes that all code is data. And the true master realizes that all data is code.
• Its about the progression of a Lisp programmer - the newbie realizes that the difference between code and data is trivial. The expert realizes that all code is data. And the true master realizes that all data is code.
• Its about the progression of a Lisp programmer - the newbie realizes that the difference between code and data is trivial. The expert realizes that all code is data. And the true master realizes that all data is code.
• In The Practice of Programming, Rob Pike says something akin to 'document your data structures rather than your algorithms'.
• Joel hits the nail on the head when he says that today's students are missing out by not having their heads hurt due to Lisp.

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