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The book--which has been mentioned favorably on HN before--can be thought of, basically, as: "Perl meets SICP". Which provides tangible support for my notion t

by qohen 18y ago

The book--which has been mentioned favorably on HN before--can be thought of, basically, as: "Perl meets SICP". Which provides tangible support for my notion that Perl can be viewed as a kind of blue-collar Lisp :-)

qohen 18y ago
Mandatory mention that the classic SICP ("Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs") aka The Wizard Book, by Sussman and Abelson, is also available free online from MIT Press, here: http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/ http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/ Lecture-videos, from courses using the book at MIT and from Berkeley, can also be found online. There's also at least one blog of someone going through the book and sites where the problems have been implemented in languages other than Scheme.
- runevault 18y ago
  I take it you mean http://eli.thegreenplace.net/category/programming/lisp/sicp/ http://eli.thegreenplace.net/category/programming/lisp/sicp/ ? If so yeah great resource.
  - qohen 18y ago
    Possibly, though I'm not sure, given that there are a number of bloggers who blogged their journey through SICP -- Googling the two terms, SICP and blog, gets me these blogs, among others: http://www.michaelharrison.ws/weblog/?p=46 http://www.michaelharrison.ws/weblog/?p=46 http://goose77programming.blogspot.com/2008_10_01_archive.html http://goose77programming.blogspot.com/2008_10_01_archive.ht... http://www.kendyck.com/archives/2005/04/24/index-of-solutions-to-sicp-exercises/ http://www.kendyck.com/archives/2005/04/24/index-of-solution... And those are just a few from the first page of Google results...
    - qohen 18y ago
      Then there's a guy who started doing the SICP problems in Arc: http://sam.bluwiki.com/blog/2008/05/working-through-sicp-in-arc.php http://sam.bluwiki.com/blog/2008/05/working-through-sicp-in-... And, here's a page of translations of the problem-solutions into a whole bunch of other computer languages: http://www.codepoetics.com/wiki/index.php?title=Topics:SICP_in_other_languages http://www.codepoetics.com/wiki/index.php?title=Topics:SICP_... (via http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1826 http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1826)

by qohen 18y ago

qohen 18y ago

Mandatory mention that the classic SICP ("Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs") aka The Wizard Book, by Sussman and Abelson, is also available free online from MIT Press, here: http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/ http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/ Lecture-videos, from courses using the book at MIT and from Berkeley, can also be found online. There's also at least one blog of someone going through the book and sites where the problems have been implemented in languages other than Scheme.

runevault 18y ago
I take it you mean http://eli.thegreenplace.net/category/programming/lisp/sicp/ http://eli.thegreenplace.net/category/programming/lisp/sicp/ ? If so yeah great resource.
- qohen 18y ago
  Possibly, though I'm not sure, given that there are a number of bloggers who blogged their journey through SICP -- Googling the two terms, SICP and blog, gets me these blogs, among others: http://www.michaelharrison.ws/weblog/?p=46 http://www.michaelharrison.ws/weblog/?p=46 http://goose77programming.blogspot.com/2008_10_01_archive.html http://goose77programming.blogspot.com/2008_10_01_archive.ht... http://www.kendyck.com/archives/2005/04/24/index-of-solutions-to-sicp-exercises/ http://www.kendyck.com/archives/2005/04/24/index-of-solution... And those are just a few from the first page of Google results...
  - qohen 18y ago
    Then there's a guy who started doing the SICP problems in Arc: http://sam.bluwiki.com/blog/2008/05/working-through-sicp-in-arc.php http://sam.bluwiki.com/blog/2008/05/working-through-sicp-in-... And, here's a page of translations of the problem-solutions into a whole bunch of other computer languages: http://www.codepoetics.com/wiki/index.php?title=Topics:SICP_in_other_languages http://www.codepoetics.com/wiki/index.php?title=Topics:SICP_... (via http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1826 http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1826)