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From: gateley@m2.csc.ti.com (John Gateley)
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Subject: Re: Texts on fundamentals of progra
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Date: 18 Apr 89 18:37:47 GMT
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In article <207600019@s.cs.uiuc.edu> carroll@s.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>flamage() {
>[Speaking about "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs"]
>The book wasn't so bad, but I never found anything in it that wasn't
>either trivially obvious, useless, or something any non-novice should
>know anyway.

I think the book is very good, and contains lots of useful information:
recursion, order of growth, first class usage of procedures,
data abstraction, streams, (meta-circular) interpreters, compilers,
other methods (like normal order) for parameter passing, and
garbage collection. These topics are presented with many realistic
examples.

But then, I like scheme too :^)

John
gateley@tilde.csc.ti.com