Gwern Branwen writes:

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 1:04 AM, Benjamin L. Russell wrote:

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There is an interesting, if somewhat dated, suggestion on "Lambda the Ultimate" (see http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1748) that "someone translate Doug Hofstadter's Scientific American columns introducing Scheme to a general audience into Haskell."

(I came across this link while adding full titles and links to the HaskellWiki "Books and tutorials" page (see http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Books_and_tutorials), where I clicked on the link to "Tutorials" (see http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Tutorials), which contained a link to a "Haskell vs. Scheme" (see http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/tb/nq1k) article, which described the post containing the suggestion.)

According to a comment by Ehud Lamm (see http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1748#comment-21292) on the above post, the columns are in Hoftstadter's book _Metamagical Themas: Questing For The Essence Of Mind And Pattern_ [1] (see http://www.amazon.com/Metamagical-Themas-Questing-Essence-Pattern/dp/0465045...).

Has anybody translated Hofstadter's articles from Scheme into Haskell?

-- Benjamin L. Russell

I have scans of the column and have meant to translate them; but you know how it is...

Branwen contacted me in private e-mail and allowed me to download a copy, but the copy was missing at least two pages. Does anybody know where I can find a complete copy? -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at Yahoo dot com http://dekudekuplex.wordpress.com/ Translator/Interpreter / Mobile: +011 81 80-3603-6725 "Furuike ya, kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto." -- Matsuo Basho^