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There was a book by Hofstadter (of Godel, Escher, Bach fame) which has a nice introduction. Perhaps the book was called Metamagicum.
jey
on Sept 23, 2007
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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.
eru
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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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