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The essentials of LISP that we have developed so far support some interesting and important computational philosophy. At this point, a little philosophy—like a smile on a friend’s face—is an appropriate interruption to the serious study of LISP programming. The objective of this chapter is to introduce some theoretical aspects of functional programming and computing. This will consist of a bit of classical recursion theory, pure LISP, types of recursion, and the folklore of fixed-point computation.
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Stark, W.R. (1990). Computational Philosophy. In: LISP, Lore, and Logic. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8931-6_4
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