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"The computer revolution is a revolution in the way we think and in the way we express what we think.", SICP, 2nd Edition. The article misses what I believe is
by ethn 9y ago
"The computer revolution is a revolution in the way we think and in the way we express what we think.", SICP, 2nd Edition.
The article misses what I believe is the most important point, which is the concept of the abstraction of a function. A function is more than a computer concept: a function is a hammer, a violin, and a microscope; you put an input and you get an output.
- yawaramin 9y agoNot only that, but you can then realise that functions are manipulable objects too, and have operations of their own--eta abstraction, reduction, composition, etc., and can be used to build all of modern mathematics pretty much from scratch.