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1992 - a world without Java... And, you know, the book about foundations is... SICP.) OK, this is C Edition.

• jorgeleo 13y ago
  if "computer science is a science of abstraction — creating the right model for thinking about a problem and devising the appropriate mechanizable techniques to solve it" then language is of no importance
  • signa11 13y ago
    > language is of no importance well, you are just being facetious, and i guess you know it too. languages are part of 'devising the appropriate mechanizable techniques to solve it' as well as algorithms & data-structures which support the abstractions that you just came up with...
  • dschiptsov 13y ago
    Language is a medium of expression of ideas (nothing in common with medium.com), so, less constrained it is the better. That is why Scheme in particular was chosen for SICP - it is small and expressive. It was a language for teaching, in good old times.))