15 books
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1 voter
1996
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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― Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
― Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
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We are about to study the idea of a computational process. Computational processes are abstract beings that inhabit computers. As they evolve, processes manipulate other abstract things called data. The evolution of a process is directed by a pattern of rules called a program. People create programs to direct processes. In effect, we conjure the spirits of the computer with our spells.
A computational process is indeed much like a sorcerer's idea of a spirit. It cannot be seen or touched. It is
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― Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
― Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs










































