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I code Python professionally (and passionately), and would consider myself quite experienced. His code in ' When Cheryl Met Eve: A Birthday Story' is the most beautifully constructed stuff in the world. That sort of stuff isn't about coding ability, it's about a reasoning process that some people have developed to such an extent that it's innately beautiful no matter how it's expressed. I'm sure his javascript solution would be nearly as beautiful.

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> I'm sure his javascript solution would be nearly as beautiful.

I really like his Python code, but I think his Lisp code from PAIP is extremely underrated. In fact, it makes me sad he switched to Python for some AI tasks (same as Goodman & Tenenbaum in http://probmods.org) given that Lisp offers a unique feature for AI: homoiconicity.

This is something that I think will make a comeback with Bayesian program learning. For a glimpse of the future, see above link.

And how many great books and papers from before the early 80s are stacking dust in libraries and college archives ?

there are lots of lisp/fp books that aren't as known as PAIP. based on the few I took on ebay (henderson's recursion book and the likes) we might have a lot of surprises.

> His code in ' When Cheryl Met Eve: A Birthday Story' is the most beautifully constructed stuff in the world.

Where is this published? I couldn't look it up.

Isn't it right here? https://github.com/norvig/pytudes/blob/master/ipynb/Cheryl-a...

https://github.com/norvig/pytudes/blob/master/ipynb/Cheryl-a...

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