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> ... and have been enlightened by SICP and lispey languages, Fun anecdote: I've got my copy of SICP signed by both authors for Sussman invited me to have tea
by TacticalCoder 5y ago
> ... and have been enlightened by SICP and lispey languages,
Fun anecdote: I've got my copy of SICP signed by both authors for Sussman invited me to have tea in his office and when I arrived the next day, by sheer chance, Abelson was there too! They joked that had I been there 30 minutes early Sussman's wife, who proofread the book, would have signed it too! I've got a cool pic taken at that moment: me standing along these two legends and proudly holding the purple book... I'll post that pic and full story the day I have a blog.
Besides that I pretty much live inside Emacs. The occasional elisp (3000 lines of custom elisp hackery over the decades) and lots of Clojure/ClojureScript.
- beepbooptheory 5y agoWow so cool! I have been working through it with just the HTML version, but recently resolved to get the physical book, its just one those I gotta have.. Then, one day when I have the money, I will get the full volumes of The Art of Computer Programming by Knuth.
- icedata 5y agoI just printed out the pdf version of the book. I found a shop that would bind it for me and print it double-sided.
- 908B64B197 5y agoI wonder how much he could raise for charity by selling autographed copies. The man is a legend.
- watersb 5y ago> had I been there 30 minutes early Sussman's wife, who proofread the book, would have signed it too! I have thought that J Sussman not only proofread the book, but also came up with some of the problem sets and tested many of them: she worked through the book, not just a matter of spell-checking. But I don't know. In any event, SICP changed my world in a good way. Very cool that you got both authors to sign a copy!