We want to establish the idea that a computer language is not just a way of getting a computer to perform operations but rather that it is a novel formal medium for expressing ideas about methodology. Thus, programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
Every computer program is a model, hatched in the mind, of a real or mental process. These processes, arising from human experience and thought, are huge in number, intricate in detail, and at any time only partially understood. They are modeled to our permanent satisfaction rarely by our computer programs. Thus even though our programs are carefully handcrafted discrete collections of symbols, mosaics of interlocking functions, they continually evolve: we change them as our perception of the model deepens, enlarges, generalizes until the model ultimately attains a metastable place within still another model with which we struggle. The source of the exhilaration associated with computer programming is the continual unfolding within the mind and on the computer of mechanisms expresses as programs and the explosion of perception they generate. If art interprets our dreams, the computer executes them in the guise of programs!
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Anonymous2008-05-20 0:56
We want to establish the idea that a computer language is not just a novel formal medium for expressing ideas about methodology but rather that it is a way of getting a computer to perform operations Thus, programs must be written for machines to execute, and only incidentally for people to read.
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Anonymous2008-05-20 2:43
>>11
Yes because we all program in assembly. It has been found that programming is simply describing machine instruction. Not building up layers of abstraction that hide complexity.
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NO ITS FUCKING SHIT AND YOU'RE THE SAME PERSON WITH >>13 JUST GTFO /prog/ YOU FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT YOU'LL NEVER BE ANYTHING IN YOUR LIFE
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Anonymous2008-05-20 13:14
( ﾟ ヮﾟ) I was inspired by >>13, but then I saw >>18 ( ﾟ -ﾟ) Now I'm sad
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Anonymous2008-05-20 13:21
Underlying our approach to this subject is our conviction that "computer science" is not a science and that its significance has little to do with computers. The computer revolution is a revolution in the way we think and in the way we express what we think. The essence of this change is the emergence of what might best be called procedural epistemology - the study of the structure of knowledge from an imperative point of view, as opposed to the more declarative point of view taken by classical mathematical subjects. Mathematics provides a framework for dealing precisely with notions of "what is." Computation provides a framework for dealing precisely with notions of "how to."
The ultimate power of the Lambda Calculus is the historical fact that it has succeded to create a community which is accepting this kind of beginning of an abstraction, accepting the common context, lexical scope of the calculus, and developing the endless research of this empire. The Church of Alonzo Church has its high sophisticated high priests and common priests where ever we need the pureness of the Crystal of the Static Universe.
This Crystal of the Static Universe has power to all Purist of this Globe: From the Roman-catholic Jesuits to the Presbyterian Protestants, the Jewish Orthodox and the mesmerized high priests of Digitalism; all are united in the trance of the secret power of the Ultimate and Eternal Lambda of Naturality.
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Anonymous2008-05-20 17:25
>>20
They should call it "computation science", or "computology", or something, just so certain people would stop with that LOL COMPUTER SCIENCE NOT SCIENCE NOT ABOUT COMPUTERS masturbation. Also, how the fuck is it not a science? Computer science is a science in the same sense that math is a science, USE OF THE FUCKING SCIENTIFIC METHOD NOT FUCKING REQUIRED.
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Anonymous2008-05-20 17:27
``Informatics''
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Anonymous2008-05-20 18:08
``Telescope science''
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Anonymous2008-05-20 18:20
This thread is PROOF that nobody on /prog/ has read SICP.
A computational process is indeed much like a sorcerer's idea of a spirit. It cannot be seen or touched. It is not composed of matter at all. However, it is very real. It can perform intellectual work. It can answer questions. It can affect the world by disbursing money at a bank or by controlling a robot arm in a factory. The programs we use to conjure processes are like a sorcerer's spells. They are carefully composed from symbolic expressions in arcane and esoteric programming languages that prescribe the tasks that we want our processes to perform.
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30)2008-05-21 16:43
>>33
Hmmm. That's true. I thought it was some ruby faggotry.
But yeah, it's from paul graham web sight.
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