You could start with The Roots of Lisp, by pg: https://www.paulgraham.com/rootsoflisp.html https://www.paulgraham.com/rootsoflisp.html In the same vein, it is

You could start with The Roots of Lisp, by pg: https://www.paulgraham.com/rootsoflisp.html https://www.paulgraham.com/rootsoflisp.html In the same vein, it is also fun to have a look at church-encoding in lambda calculus and to play with it in the language you choose.