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Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence ProgrammingBook

Case Studies in Common Lisp

by Peter Norvig, 1992

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Adam Tornhill
Swedish programmer with degrees in engineering and psychology; author of Your Code as a Crime Scene and founder of CodeScene.
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Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming by Peter Norvig. Learning the AI described in this book probably won't land you a job today. But reading the code examples will transform how you think about source code. The book shines when it comes to code comments, a topic that I've never seen demonstrated well in other sources. Here we get to see how comments become valuable as a narrative that explains both intent and reasoning. Brilliant, just brilliant.

A post naming the pre-2015 programming books that changed how he thinks about code, plus his take on the usual classics.

2026-08-11·adamtornhill.substack.com ↗

Patrick Collison
Co-founder of Stripe. Publishes the contents of his bookshelf, marking the standouts.
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On his bookshelf, marked as one he thought was particularly great.

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