Even Sussman himself agrees. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_and_Interpretation_of_Computer_Programs#cite_note-0
I talked to Professor Sussman on the phone ... He said that he'd actually been trying to have 6.001 replaced for the last ten years (and I read somewhere that Professor Abelson was behind the move too). Understanding the principles is not essential for an introduction to the subject matter anymore. He sees 6.001 as obsolete.
Repost of a repost, which was a repost of a reposted repost by a reposter.
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Anonymous2009-03-02 19:54
Understanding the principles is not essential for an introduction to the subject matter anymore.
My god, my god, why have you forsaken me?
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Anonymous2009-03-02 21:27
I thought FV had talked to the Suss on the phone. For a moment I was very worried about /prog/ coming across as trolling and ultimately javascript, but thank God, it was someone else.
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There are two kinds of scientific progress: the methodical experimentation and categorization which gradually extend the boundaries of knowledge, and the revolutionary leap of genius which redefines and transcends those boundaries. Acknowledging our debt to the former, we yearn, nonetheless, for the latter.
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Anonymous2009-03-25 8:10
SO it wasn't trolling..
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Anonymous2009-03-25 8:15
>>10
How is it possible, not only in this day, but additionally in this age, that people can still... Still! see FrozenVoid's posts? Can someone please explain to me how this is possible? I'm just really curious to know how it's possible, it makes absolutely no sense at all.
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Anonymous2009-03-25 8:18
How is it possible...
in this day and age...
that people can still... still
see FV's posts?
I'm actually quite confused about this, and I've learnt Haskell mondas!
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Anonymous2009-03-25 8:24
How it is possible that ancient, bug-ridden monstrosity of language like C drives all OS development in the world?
We should switch to Haskell.
How is it possible that people parrot other peoples posts? Why don't they come up with anything new.
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Anonymous2009-03-25 12:23
>>21
In the good old days people paid for the paper and ink and didn't wasted it to rewrite old crap. Wait, that was before paper was cheap, i mean papyrus was used to contain only the quality content which you wrote yourself(well, except those pesky plagiarist scribes).
This thread has reached it's ROI.
You can't reply anymore.
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Anonymous2009-03-25 17:18
>>1
Why should I believe you, or follow a link from someone in their first 10 posts? Why is that book worth reading? What does SICP stand for?
Hmm, at least the link seems to be honest (pointing where it appears to point).
Thanks.
I checked it this morning and it looked good.
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EvanED2009-03-25 17:24
>>26
SICP = Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. This is the text that MIT uses in their intro programming class, in Scheme. By all accounts a great book for teaching the intro to CS.
This is the text that MIT uses in their intro programming class, in Scheme.
no, it isn't.
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Anonymous2009-03-25 19:39
I am actually reading SICP (rather slowly) and feel it is and is going to be very enlightening. Of course, this is coming from someone who thought K&R was enlightening.
>>33
1 year and 2 months later the mystery is revealed thanks to the necroposting spambot who doesn't realize its bandwidth is being wasted. Html disabled here, all links are nofollow AND WE ARE NOT IN THE MARKET FOR WEDDING GOWNS DAMMIT.
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