Hello /prog/ers the lack of discussion of SICP is troubling to me. Have visitors stopped reading/watching lectures? Have all the members gained complete understanding of said book/lectures?
Also what about SICM?
Let us make an effort to discuss these and other teachings of sussman's.
"he's a son of a bitch"
"mathematical notation fundamentally sucks"
what is the Sussman saying for d in "d/dt"?
"stallman and i worked on a program that does this and does what i do" where is this program that embodies the Sussman
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Anonymous2008-06-24 23:23
HTDP TALK IN THIS THREAD
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Anonymous2008-06-24 23:24
the only good part of SICP is the register machine
Strange that you should make this thread, because I'm going to be taking a course in September that uses SICP.
I just started reading SICP and now I know why you guys were so addicte to getting others to read it. It's so fucking AWESOME, and to think I haven't even reached Satori yet.
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Anonymous2008-06-25 4:05
>>11-san please keep us updated with your SICP studies.
i started reading SICM but you have to use an older linux or something to run the programs so i sorta got bored... installing some old debian distro on vmware now. damn /prog/
>>27
All the SICP PDFs I've seen so far were generated from spidering the MIT site, and hence contain such things as images instead of properly typeset equations, rather aliased figures, and other annoyances.
This anon is currently retypesetting SICP in PDF form.
>>43
If by ``/prog/'' you mean ``some wankers who think that Anonymous is something more than undisclosing one's name'', and by Linux you mean ``Anonix'', and by ``wrote'' you mean ``tried but failed to write'', then I agree.
SICP retypesetting anon here, I haven't given up! I'm just spending more time doing the exercises and whatnot because they're interesting. This book is awesome.
Can someone with the physical copy scan figures 2.9 through 2.14 and post them on /hr/ or something? The ones I have are rather low-res and pixelated, and they can't be vectored.
>>66
I'm not >>67, but I don't see a SICP thread in /hr/ so I'm assuming he hasn't delivered yet.
The problem with thick books is that it's hard to get clean scans without cutting them up, and thin paper doesn't combine with dark pictures on the other side well.
Still, nothing Photoshop and/or low standards won't fix.
>>70
Thanks. Photoshop should definitely be able to clean them up and resize them (currently, ONE of those images is larger than the PDF of the entire book!)
>>78
``Let's use obscure archiving formats and force everyone to install some useless piece of software, just to save save asymptotically zero bytes in the progress'' is just another way to say ``OMG OPTIMIZED''.
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Anonymous2008-08-15 14:21
>>79
Just as obscure as rar or zip.
Don't get me wrong, I do dislike 7z. I just don't know why.
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Anonymous2008-08-15 14:26
>>80
Quiz: name one (1) desktop operating system from the last five years that doesn't have zip functionality built-in.
rar is just as moronic as 7zip, with the added flavour of 1337 w4r3z d00dz.
Bumpu for updates on SICP retypesetting Anon's progress. We love you.
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Anonymous2008-08-24 13:50
>>107
GNU Emacs sucks, hence the only way to browse it sanely is after it has been converted to HTML.
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Anonymous2008-08-24 20:46
I'M RMS
SON OF A BITCH VIM
VIM IS PIG
DO YOU WANT MODES?
DO YOU WANT EVEN MORE FUCKED UP KEY BINDINGS THAN I HAVE?
VIM IS PIG DISGUSTING
LINUS BENEDICT TORVALDS IS A MURDERER
FUCKING VISUAL INTERFACE
Seriously guys, I think you're going too far. I know it's stupid to tell this to Anonymous, but I wouldn't turn the respect we have for the Sussman into something he might not like if he saw it. And we're easily reachable via Google if you Google for Lisp-related stuff.
I see the Sussman as a super-hero, along with the Abelson. They're like Superman and Batman; the former is all about purity; the later is darker but gets the job done and does just as good a service to the world.
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