THE SUSSMAN IS BACK

[b]Subject Offering: Spring 2013
6.945
Adventures in Advanced Symbolic Programming
Officially: Large-scale Symbolic Systems
3-0-9, Grad H Level, AI Concentration

Gerald Jay Sussman
with Pavel Panchekha

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/6.945/

Forgot my closing [b]!

There will be extensive programming assignments, using MIT/GNU Scheme. Students should have significant programming experience in Scheme, Common Lisp, Haskell, CAML or other "functional" language.

Is Lisp not functional anymore?

>>3
lisp is shit

adventures in symbolic programming

lesson one: dream interpretation - in a room whose walls are lined with moving projections of dali paintings we - while naked - write lisp code that mixes our dream energy

Pavel Panchekha
As Jewish as Nikiketa ``Delicate Flower'' Sadvosky. Shalom, hymie!

>>6
Yep. Panchekha is polish name: "Pan" is a honorific, like -san, while "chekha" points that the Jew came from Bohemia.

>>7
Alternatively it could have translation Pan's Child (pancha, where chekha some ukrainean mutation of chado/czędo)

So this is why you switched 6.001 to FIOC?

How easy would it be to sneak into courses like this?

>>10

-  significant programming experience in Scheme, Common Lisp, Haskell, CAML or other "functional" language.
- 6.034, or comparable programming experience.
- study at MIT

If you have those, might be easy, I believe.

>>11
The last part is what I don't have, otherwise it wouldn't really be sneaking in!

Fight the Power!

>>13
Run and Cower!

Guess who's back, back again
Sussman's back, tell a friend
Guess who's back, guess who's back?
Guess who's back, guess who's back? ...

>>15
eminem a shit

white people shouldn't try to emulate nigger culture

>>16
I agree. Fun is forbidden on the internet.

>>16
When, long ago, the gods created Earth
In Jove’s fair image Man was shaped at birth.
The beasts for lesser parts were next designed;
Yet were they too remote from humankind.
To fill the gap, and join the rest to Man,
Th’Olympian host conceiv’d a clever plan.
A beast they wrought, in semi-human figure,
Filled it with vice, and called the thing a Nigger.

>>17
I had fun once, it was awful

>>10
>>12
The last guy who snuck into MIT was murdered (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz) by jews so you may want to think long and hard about attempting it.

>>20
The last guy who got caught you mean.

I doubt there is anything important at MIT, except Lisp/SICP, which they made public anyway. And I don't think old crook Chomsky or commie Stallman are that important. More like they harm industry with their opensource ideas, so it is better they wont left MIT at all. Open Source must be stopped, so that Europeans could create their own Windows and shareware programmers could make a few bucks.

>>22

Those days are over - people now expect everything to be free. My home server runs Linux, which represents literally hundreds of man-years of development time, all for free. I get annoyed when somebody wants me to spend $15 for something that looks like they cranked it out in a weekend.

To some degree, open source/free software killed shareware. If something is simple enough for a single developer to do part-time, and useful enough that many want it, you can be pretty sure that some other developer can do about the same thing part-time and open up his/her version.

>>22
Fuck off you right-wing nut, stop trying to impede progress you corporatist scum.

Go back to /pol/.

>>23
1. Significant shift from downloadable products to web-based services.It has always been a pain in the butt to download and install something. People forget where they downloaded the program, they can’t install it because they need administrative privileges, they download viruses and trojans and eventually stop downloading anything. Developing and marketing a web-based application is very different from developing a Windows application. No wonder old shops are struggling.

2. The market has been saturated. No one thought it was possible, but it happened. There are hundreds of titles in any imaginable consumer software category. Fitness applications, backups, photo editing – you name it. There are too many “me too” apps and as a result, everyone gets a smaller piece of the pie.

2.1 There are too many crapware around. The barriers for entry have been lowered a lot recently. Everybody and his dog decides to get rich quickly. It’s an old news and it’s not exactly about shareware, but I can’t resist inserting the link: Here Comes Another Bubble.

3. There is an all-crushing pressure from the FREE. This thing started like 10 years ago – “we get as many eye-balls as possible by offering our service for free and we decide how to monetize them later”, and the demon was unleashed. More and more companies offer the results of their work for free in a hope to attract users. You may attract users, but they are not paying customers. When you run out of money to continue development of your product, they will all happily jump off your train for the next one, to get another free ride.

4. Old marketing methods are less effective these days.And by “old” methods I don’t mean TV, printed media, conferences and shows. Google AdWords are much more expensive than they used to be several years ago. There are too many good blogs around for you to hope to create something noticable with just a few good posts. You need years to grow your audience. Any marketing vehicle you take is crammed and spammed to the point it doesn’t work effectively anymore.

>>25
Fuck off normalfag, I want the sourcecode because I am a curious hacker

capitalist scum

>>26
"When you run out of money to continue development of your product, they will all happily jump off your train for the next one, to get another free ride."

>>3
Lisp outside Scheme was never functional (no tail call), and its advocates (Naggum) consider functional programming useless.

>>27
Bullshit. go back to /g/ winblows

>>29
muh freedom muh Stallman

>>26
You say ``fuck'' too much.

>>30
Enjoy your 0days, winblows retard.

muh capitalism muh shitty overpriced software

muh apps muh python

>>32
muh c################################################################################################################

>>33
muh freedooommm

>>34
actually insulting the concept of freedom

fucking nazi

i thought the united states of america was about freedom? fucking capitalist nazi scum eroding our freedoms

>>16
I like Eminem and nigger music, fuck you fagstorm.

>>32
Enjoy your *
muh muh muh
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>ENJOY YOUR LE /G/ENTOO
>LE 2013
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LE MUH FACE IS MUH LE FAVORITE /G/ MEME
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Hey lel, let's have sex.

>>1
THE SUSSMAN IS BACK
AWESOME

Two little parentheses go round the outside,
Round the outside, round the outside..
Two little parentheses go round the outside,
Round the outside, round the outside..

Guess who's back, back again
Sussman's back, tell a friend
Guess who's back, guess who's back,
Guess who's back. Guess who's back?

[Verse 1]
I created a course, cuz nobody wants to
See Abelson no more they want Sussman
I'm Common Lisp
Well if you want Sussman, then this is what I'll give ya
A little bit of me mixed with some hard lambda
Some closures that will jumpstart your head quicker
Than the chalk thrown at you in the back row
By the Dr. when you're not cooperating
When I'm lecturing while you're masturbating "Hey"
You waited this long to stop debating
Cuz I'm back, I'm on the podium and lecturing
I know you got a job Ms. Stallman
But your husband's mental problem is complicated
So the GCC won't let me be
Or let me be me so let me see
They tried to shut me down on MIT
But it feels so empty without me
So come on and quip, bring on your lisp
Jump back jiggle a byte and wiggle a bit
And get ready cuz this is about to get heavy
I just settled all my lawsuits, "Fuck you, Ritchie!"

[Chorus 2X]
Now this looks like a job for me
So everybody just follow me
Cuz we need a little controversy
Cuz it feels so empty without me..

But The Sussman would probably hate Common Lisp