[HN Gopher] Combinators: A Centennial View
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       Combinators: A Centennial View
        
       Author : graememcc
       Score  : 20 points
       Date   : 2021-03-27 17:33 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | lindig wrote:
       | I find this painful to read. It's always about what Stephen
       | Wolfram has done and how it is realised in Mathematica. If you
       | are a true expert in a field you should have less trouble
       | acknowledging other people's contributions. I missed, for
       | example, the connection with Church numerals or the
       | acknowledgement that substitution is not just defined in
       | Mathematica.
        
       | artemonster wrote:
       | If you want to learn about combinators and have some great fun
       | while doing it I just can't recommend enough of this book: "To
       | Mock a Mockingbird" by Raymond Smullyan. Don't sweat it, buy it,
       | I haven't had so much fun in a long time.
        
         | Jtsummers wrote:
         | Seconding this book. I jumped back to the beginning of his
         | recreational logic books and have been reading through them
         | this year. Lots of fun, and as a programmer there's an extra
         | (self-induced) challenge to explore programs that can generate,
         | solve, or interpret the systems and problems he sets up.
        
           | a4isms wrote:
           | Thirding.
        
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