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by so-cal-schemer 1y ago
Strange Loop Language Panel - Hickey, Sussman, Wirfs-Brock, Pamer, Alexandrescu, Ashkenas (2011) https://youtu.be/zhZMaF8vq5Y?t=297 Sussman: well it's really very hard to find the worst idea because there are so many
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Hal Abelson (Co-Author of SICP) InfiniteHistoryProject MIT (2011) [video](youtube.com)
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MIT Professor Harold Abelson (and co-author of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs w/ Gerald Jay Sussman) talks about his personal history growing up on a NJ farm, struggles with math, attending Princeton, culture at Viet
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Parens, parens, every where, And all the conses link; Parens, parens, every where, Nor infix op to think.
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I don't remember who said it, but the Metacircular Evaluator is the real superpower in Lisp/Scheme — even beyond writing macros. It allows you to modify the language itself in ways that are unthinkable in other languages. Whether
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Btw, I've just read the first section of Chapter 5 [Computing with Register Machines] for the first time, and think it's the best introduction to assembly that I've seen (and I've seen a few). Calling it 'fake'
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Thank goodness! Can you imagine a world where just anybody could leap tall buildings? https://www.paulgraham.com/rootsoflisp.html https://www.paulgraham.com/diff.html https://www.paulgraham.com&#
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https://www.codeandcoffee.dev/ We've had a SICP discussion/reading group running for a few months. [Sundays at 3pm Pacific] Currently we are looking at §4.4 — Logic Programming. [0] Includes the book's stream