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I make a point of re-reading Alan Perlis' preface from time to time: https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-3.html https://m

by matfil 6y ago

I make a point of re-reading Alan Perlis' preface from time to time: https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-3.html https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/full-text/... Fun is important, and it seems all too easy to lose sight of that.

CodeArtisan 6y ago
If i had to retain one thing from SICP, it would be this from the preface of the first edition: First, we want to establish the idea that a computer language is not just a way of getting a computer to perform operations but rather that it is a novel formal medium for expressing ideas about methodology. Thus, programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
082349872349872 6y ago
> Fun is important Maxwell v. Kelvin: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/fourier-analysis/ode-to-a-galvanometer/D6ADE60D396B492B0DB02288BCA6ADE1 https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/fourier-analysis/ode-to...