Read SICP

SICP is a literary masterpiece. It's not often that you can say that a technical book is a page-turner, but that's just what I found SICP to be.  The book moves from topic to topic with rare ease and clarity, but more importantly it moves with purpose and mission.  As you read it, you can feel the authors slowly building a tension towards a climax.  The chapters fly by as you read about data structures, algorithms, message passing, first-class procedures, and so much else.  Each concept leads inevitably to the next.  Each chapter adds to the ever building tension.  By time you are half-way through the book, the sense that something important is about to change becomes palpable.

And then something important changes!  Something you had not anticipated.  Something you should have guessed, but did not.  On page 216 they introduce a concept so familiar that most programming books start with it.  On page 216 they prove to you that you've had some wrong ideas about programming all along.  On page two hundred and sixteen, after talking about algorithms, data structures, recursion, iteration, trees, high-order procedures, scoping, local variables, data abstraction, closures, message-passing, and a plethora of other topics -- after all that, they introduce assignment!

And with that elegant coup-de-grace (which is not the last in this book!), they vanquish the concept that programming is about manipulating state.  With that one stroke, they force you to look back on all you had done in the previous pages in a new and enlightened way -- a functional way.

I love the stream-processing part of SICP, where it stresses the difference between top-down and bottom-up styles. Other than that, SICP isn't bad book to read if you're new to philoshopy.

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This is all very nice, but SICP teaches you close to nothing about mIRC scripting.

>>5
No mIRC scripting? Are you fucking kidding me? I'm not reading this shit.

>>1
Assigment in computer science is kind of ambigious. For example, in some languages, where the type is bound to the variable, the assignment operator will modify the object. In other languages where the value is bound to the variable, the assignment operator will create a new 'name' and then bind this name to the object.

In terms of computing the final result, some languages treat the assignment operator as a statement and others treat it as an expression. And the list goes on. But of course you will never know this since you seem to be confined to reading one loser computer science book.

>>5-6
You faggots are still on mIRC? Lol, get on facebook like all the normal people.

SICP: 2 DEEP 4 U!

>>8
No.

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