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user-inactivated  ·  2677 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: July 26, 2017

SICP got its reputation by being pretty much everyone's first exposure to functional programming for a couple of decades. When I read it I had professors who thought "functional programming" was a funny way of saying procedural as opposed to OO programming. In that context it really was mind-blowing. Holy shit you can define a function that takes the derivative of another





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