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From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
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Subject: Re: Abelson & Sussman
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Date: 19 Mar 90 19:49:55 GMT
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In article <7222@ubc-cs.UUCP> manis@cs.ubc.ca (Vincent Manis) writes:
>Let's also ignore the fact that Abelson and Sussman explicitly didn't
>write a book on programming, but rather on computer science. 

While I pretty much agree with everything else you said, I think it's
fairly clear that the book is in fact a book on programming, although
not just on programming.  Read the Forward and Preface if you don't
think so.