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This edition is an amazing improvement on the original ebook: https://sicpebook.wordpress.com/ https://sicpebook.wordpress.com/ What mathematics? Now that many
by Syzygies 8y ago
This edition is an amazing improvement on the original ebook: https://sicpebook.wordpress.com/ https://sicpebook.wordpress.com/
What mathematics? Now that many states have legalized cannabis, SICP should be read while high in the middle of the night. Its nonstop commentary is profoundly amusing. I love for example the passage that presents tail-recursion as the natural form of iteration, and notes about other languages:
"As a consequence, these languages can describe iterative processes only by resorting to special-purpose “looping constructs” such as do, repeat, until, for, and while."
Of course they're right, and yes that's a mathematical view, but they put it so well. All replacement texts are unreadably dry.