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Name: Anonymous 2008-02-12 17:50

It's from 1985, a comparatively elderly era of computing. Its ideas are barely relevant today.

The world has moved on, and we are using more modern programming techniques and languages.

Denizens of /prog/, please take my advice and realise that you are wasting your life by worshipping this ancient, forgotten text and its creator.

Thank you.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-12 17:53

have you read it?

Name: >>2 2008-02-12 18:03

No OP, you haven't.
You judge a book by its age without having read it's contents.
That is not very wise.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-12 19:27

Second Edition is from 1996, actually.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-13 3:48

I agree

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-13 4:14

>>5
You agree with which of the multitude of opinions? Aghhhhh!

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-13 5:38

I disagree

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-15 1:01

Then I suppose that K&R should just be thrown in the trash, eh? Same with TAOCP?

Go read your "Dummies" books and leave us who want to learn and expand our minds alone.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-15 6:22

>>8
K&R IS PIG DISGUSTING

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-15 6:31

>>9
If you meant the indent style, I'm of the same opinion.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-15 6:55

http://markitup.com/Posts/Post.aspx?postId=4d6d80ba-3f26-4e87-b2a5-0387f1ce6c35

I ran the tests several more times and it turns out that code written using K&R style bracing is almost 1% faster than code written using Allman style!

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-15 7:19

>>11
...
whoa. im speechless

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-15 7:22

>>11
Which is faster, K&R or Allman?
They can't even figure out when to escape HTML characters.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-15 7:27

And we have been trolled constantly.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-15 8:01

>>13
What does the K in K&R stand for?

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-15 12:45

>>11
Only for interpreted languages. But it probably _will_ compile faster with less whitespace the compile has to read. Marginally faster, mind you.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-15 15:52

I  guess we'll have to agree to disagree

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-15 19:27

I guess we'll have to disagree to agree

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-15 19:30

I guess we'll have to disagree to disagree

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-15 20:37

>>19
I agree.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-15 21:31

>>20
I disagree.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-15 21:33

>>21
I abstain.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-15 21:50

>>22
I guess we'll have to agree to disagree

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-16 0:36

>>23
I guess we'll have to gather our thoughts and reconvene at a later date.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-16 2:23

>>24
I guess we'll have to reconvene our thoughts and gather at a later date.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-16 5:10

>>25
I guess we'll have to date and gather our reconvene at a later thought.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-16 10:27

>>26
I thought we'll have a guess at our date and gather to reconvene later.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-16 18:03

>>27
I gather we'll have to guess our date and reconvene at a later thought.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-16 18:20

>>28
We'll gather and reconvene to guess at our later thoughts. I have a date.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-16 18:23

>>29
I guess I have flatulence.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-16 19:58

>>24-29
This could go on for 87,178,291,194 more posts.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-16 20:50

>>24-29
This could go on for 87,178,291,194 posts more.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-16 20:58

>>24-29
87,178,291,194 more posts this could go on for.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-16 21:47

>>24-29
Could this go on for 87,178,291,194 more posts?

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-16 22:42

No.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-16 22:47

On.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-16 23:06

N.o

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-17 0:35

oN.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-17 0:49

WELCOME TO THE FUTURE, BITCHES. FUCKING SAGE.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-17 6:24

BITCHES FUCKING THE FUTURE, TO WELCOME SAGE.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-17 6:29

FUCKING WELCOME THE BITCHES TO THE FUTURE SAGE.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-17 10:10

SAGE THE BITCHES TO THE FUCKING WELCOME FUTURE.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-17 10:58

.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-17 11:42

BITCHES SAGE WELFUCKCOME INGFUTURE TO THE.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-17 12:04


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Name: Anonymous 2008-02-17 12:50

>>=

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-17 13:16

>>46
Namek. Haskell Nameks.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-17 13:17

>>47
WHAT

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-17 13:20

>>48
Nomads. Namek Nomads.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-17 19:35

>>49
That's what I said.

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-30 1:24

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-30 3:02

>>51
I read the title ``A critique of Abelson and Sussman,'' and closed xpdf in disgust.

Name: Simon Peyote Joints 2008-03-30 3:50

>>52
Scheme is pig disgusting, my friend Philip Wadler is quiet right.

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-30 4:39

>>53
Philip Wadler is quiet
And he should remain quiet.

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-30 5:12

>>53
Programming is not about who is right, but who is left.

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-30 5:45

LISP

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-30 16:02

>>53,54
Oooh burn. You got so burnt >>53, you're going to need some ointment

Name: Simon Peyote Joints 2008-03-30 16:09

>>57
Okay, you're asking for it.

If you're messing with my buddy, you're messing with his lambdas: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/Pics/phillambdabig.jpg

Name: Simon Peyote Joints 2008-03-30 19:29

hello im Simon the Haskellite join my community of nomads if you payme enough i will give you access to a private area of typechecking ;)
irc://chat.freenode.net/haskell

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-31 7:58

CANCER !!

THIS THREAD IS CANCER !!

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-31 13:20

«The book never lives up to all the hype surrounding it. In fact, of the over 50 people I know who had the misfortune to study out of it, none liked it. I imagine only a few crazy souls who care about nothing but dry computer languages theory would even consider this worth reading.

Recursion and information hiding via procedural/object code is nothing mysterious and is taught in all other CS classes, so the text adds nothing new. It merely retells the same old obvious programming techniques using a very poorly designed language (Scheme) and using completely uneducational examples. In short, this book is an overrated waste of time. If you are familiar with structured programming in a language like C++, you won't get anything new out of this. In fact, any topic presented here is better learned elsewhere, since the text is just one of those poorly written books that try to be encyclopedic at the expense of being interesting and thorough.»

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-31 13:36

>>61
Goddamn, he's right!

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-31 13:44

>>62
Now let's add all kinds of syntax and special cases to hide what is going on!

Name: Anonymous 2008-05-03 15:46

cdr

Name: Anonymous 2008-05-03 16:06

Have you read your SAMS TEACH YOURSELF SCHEME IN 24 HOURS today?

Name: Anonymous 2008-05-03 16:14

This is THE SUSSMAN,

My only friend, THE SUSSMAN.

Name: Anonymous 2008-05-03 20:25

SAGE FUCKING THE FUTURE, WELCOME TO BITCHES.

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-07 21:55

So isn't SICP good anymore?:(

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-07 22:03

>>68
THE SUSSMEN himself said that SICP is still "right on" despite being obsoleted by 6.01, so grab yourself a copy of SICP, learn some fucking Scheme and achieve satori. Fuck what THE SUSSMEN says, SICP is still relevant!

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-07 22:04

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-08 4:05

>>70

(づの‿の)づ

Name: Anonymous 2010-12-10 15:13

Name: Anonymous 2013-08-14 11:19

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