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Which one is better?

Name: Anonymous 2011-01-24 3:15

Paul Graham or Gerald Sussman?

Name: Anonymous 2011-01-24 3:17

LISP

Name: Anonymous 2011-01-24 3:17

SCHEME

Name: Anonymous 2011-01-24 3:19

inb4 shitstorm

Name: Anonymous 2011-01-24 3:40

PSIL

Name: Anonymous 2011-01-24 4:23

I think probably Paul Graham would win in a fight. Gerry doesn't look very strong, and is also a friendly family man, while Paul is more like a wild beast, grawwwr, I'm going to eat you, like.

Name: Anonymous 2011-01-24 5:07

Bjarne

Name: Anonymous 2011-01-24 5:09

Guido van FIOC

Name: Anonymous 2011-01-24 7:56

>>1
GJS Jay Sussman-sama

Name: Anonymous 2011-01-24 14:39

Sussman wrote a book that was actually useful. He and Abelson literally revolutionized computer science education.

Paul Graham wrote two books, neither of which is very good (ANSI Common Lisp is especially bad, on account of the fact that he calls it ANSI Common Lisp, and then decides to cover the parts of the language he likes, while using a really fucked up, non-standard style). He also created a really pointless dialect of Lisp, which he used to create a website that hosts a community of retarded, vaguely right-wing "startup" assholes (seriously, if I hear about another business being 'bootstrapped', I'm going to kill somebody). So in short, he's polluted the already shitty Lisp literature, further fragmented the Lisp community by an ever-so-tiny margin, and managed to give a voice to a bunch of mouth breathers in the process.

So, Sussman.

Waits patiently on the Hacker News morons to come and defend their beloved 'pg'.

Name: Anonymous 2011-01-24 16:47

>>10
He and Abelson literally revolutionized computer science education.
But we already had TAOCP!

Name: Anonymous 2011-01-24 17:42

bump

Name: Anonymous 2011-01-24 18:36

>>1
That fact that this question has even been asked speaks volumes about /prog/ in 2011. :(

Name: Anonymous 2011-01-24 19:28

Abelson & Sussman alienated a large potential audience by using calculus in their example programs.

Neither of Graham's books are really beginners books, but are worth reading once youre comfortable with Lisp syntax.

Name: Anonymous 2011-01-24 19:48

>>13
Still much better than 80% of the threads from 2010.

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