Alice's Adventures in Programming Language Theory Wonderland: A Short List of Computer Science/Programming/Mathematics Books in the Style of Lewis Carroll
Alice’s Adventures in Programming Language Theory Wonderland: A Short List of Computer Science/Programming/Mathematics Books in the Style of Lewis Carroll June 10, 2011 Once upon a time, an MIT professor reputedly claimed that Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was the best book on computer science. While that opinion is subjective, there are a number of papers or publications related to computer science, programming, or mathematics that are written in a style that at least loosely resembles Carroll’s work. In fact, one of the first documents that I encountered in this classification was a paper that I encountered in the Sterling Memorial Library of my college that was an academic treatise analyzing the role of logic in the humor of works by Lewis Carroll. The paper was actually written to fulfill an academic requirement (I think that it was written as a thesis for either a Master of Arts of Master of Science degree, probably in philosophy), but was actually great fun to rea...