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_The Little Schemer_ is likely the gentlest possible introduction (unless you have a peanut allergy). It's a quick read, too. Perhaps you're thinking of SICP?
by silentbicycle 16y ago
_The Little Schemer_ is likely the gentlest possible introduction (unless you have a peanut allergy). It's a quick read, too.
Perhaps you're thinking of SICP?
- brlewis 16y agoI'm definitely not thinking of SICP, but now that I look at the table of contents of _The Little Schemer_ I must have been thinking of another book. It had an innocuous title but very tricky and subtle contents. It wasn't very long. And it wasn't _Simply Scheme_ either.
- silentbicycle 16y agoOkay. If it helps, the formatting for _The Little Schemer_ is very distinctive: a lot of short question-and-response pairs, with (perhaps overly) cutesy drawings of elephants. _The Seasoned Schemer_ is harder, but it's the sequel. If you like the format, _The Little MLer_ is one of the best intros I've seen to ML-style type systems.