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From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme
Subject: Re: Scheme and the Art of Programming
Keywords: educational book review
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Date: 26 Feb 90 17:42:53 GMT
References: <36655@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
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In article <36655@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> harlan@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Pete Harlan) writes:
 >concludes with a lovely set of exercises that has the student
 >implement Turing machines as a controller driven by an external
 >state-transition table.  One could hardly imagine a more fitting
 >conclusion for a chapter on mutation!

Humm.  Turing machines are pretty boring, IMHO.