/prog/ - Favorite quote from SICP

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-23 10:11

What is your favorite quote from sicp? Favorite passage? Favorite exercise.

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-23 10:12

NO EXCEPTIONS

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-23 10:45

``The programmer must seek both perfection of part and adequacy of collection."

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-23 12:52

"The ability to visualize the consequences of the actions under consideration is crucial to becoming an expert programmer"

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-23 12:57

ALSO SHOW US YOUR SICP TO SHOW THAT YOUR'E HARDCORE!

http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/4062/kdk0245.jpg

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-23 13:17

>>5
Inferior paperback version.

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-23 13:43

>>6
s/Inferior/cheaper/

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-23 14:11

http://imgur.com/6dkXJ.jpg

I suck at drawing the /prog/snake.

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-23 14:27

I read it online.
I don't see why I should read it in-paper as I'm still using the computer while reading it.

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-23 14:51

>>9
And that is why you will never reach Satori.

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-23 15:10

>>8
you seem to have some type of lego-technics tyre stuck to the bottom of your sicp

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-23 15:26

>>5,8
Get those disgusting images off of my BBS.

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-23 16:54

>>5
>Advan
>Sect
>A

Advanced Section? Sector? Which one of these is a course, and requires SICP as a textbook?

http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/adopt-list.html

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-23 16:55

"Programming is a lot more like magic than it is science"

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-23 20:50

>>12
Funny you should word it like that. Back in the day I used to do just that; get disgusting images off a BBS.

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-23 21:07

>>11
I think it's a board eraser

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-24 1:34

>>5
That table cloth looks like it's really itchy.

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-24 2:14

>>5
Paperback? Ugh! Hardcover only!

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-24 2:34

Stop killing trees, use PDFs

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-24 2:35

I have opinions, strong ones, but that doesn't necessarily mean that I agree with them.

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-24 5:35

>>17
Its very soft. It's more of a blanket that I picked on in Sedona, Arizona from some mexican or native american shop

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-24 5:36

>>13
It's part of a postage frank/franc whatever

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-24 7:52

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-25 12:26

>>7
It's the same thing.

Name: Anonymous 2011-02-03 1:07

Name: Anonymous 2011-02-17 19:59

that's cool and all, but check 'em

Don't change these.

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Favorite quote from SICP

1 Name: Anonymous 2010-06-23 10:11

2 Name: Anonymous 2010-06-23 10:12

3 Name: Anonymous 2010-06-23 10:45

4 Name: Anonymous 2010-06-23 12:52

5 Name: Anonymous 2010-06-23 12:57

6 Name: Anonymous 2010-06-23 13:17

7 Name: Anonymous 2010-06-23 13:43

8 Name: Anonymous 2010-06-23 14:11

9 Name: Anonymous 2010-06-23 14:27

10 Name: Anonymous 2010-06-23 14:51

11 Name: Anonymous 2010-06-23 15:10

12 Name: Anonymous 2010-06-23 15:26

13 Name: Anonymous 2010-06-23 16:54

14 Name: Anonymous 2010-06-23 16:55

15 Name: Anonymous 2010-06-23 20:50

16 Name: Anonymous 2010-06-23 21:07

17 Name: Anonymous 2010-06-24 1:34

18 Name: Anonymous 2010-06-24 2:14

19 Name: Anonymous 2010-06-24 2:34

20 Name: Anonymous 2010-06-24 2:35

21 Name: Anonymous 2010-06-24 5:35

22 Name: Anonymous 2010-06-24 5:36

23 Name: Anonymous 2010-06-24 7:52

40 Name: Anonymous 2010-06-25 12:26

43 Name: Anonymous 2011-02-03 1:07

44 Name: Anonymous 2011-02-17 19:59