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by joelhaasnoot 5638 days ago
"Barendregt is a helluva drug."

Not sure I agree: his lectures are quite sleep inducing these days. Though reducing programming to something so simple and mathematical does open lots of possibilities...

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That thick yellow book rocked my world once upon a time.

Never saw him lecture though.

He teaches classes at the Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, specifically my "Languages and automata/machines" class. He has a "zen" something going on with lots of interesting comments.
How did you keep it together? The binding is so bad, you can't open it up more than 45 degrees.