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Ah, PAIP... it's such a wonderful book! I highly recommend aspiring programmers to read it even if they don't care about Lisp or AI; the sheer amount of common
by eliben 6y ago
Ah, PAIP... it's such a wonderful book! I highly recommend aspiring programmers to read it even if they don't care about Lisp or AI; the sheer amount of common programming wisdom in this book is priceless.
- dmos62 6y agoSeconded. I divide my programming into pre- and post-having-read-PAIP eras.
- dunefox 6y agoWhat exactly did you take from it?
- dmos62 6y agoDifficult to put into words. The book is a sort of walkthrough of programming. It walks you through writing a number of programs iteratively, as in it starts with the most naive approaches and gradually improves upon them. That makes it a very involving process (because, like a good story, it starts in a common place and then takes you somewhere). It also introduces you to a lot of exciting things, especially if you're not that experienced. After reading the first chapters I wrote my own pattern matcher for example (I hardly knew what it was before then, let alone felt confident writing one).
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