1996


A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
Fight Club
The Runaway Jury
The Green Mile
The Notebook (The Notebook, #1)
Desperation
Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
Into the Wild
Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
Snow Falling on Cedars
The Two Dead Girls (The Green Mile, #1)
Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)
The Regulators
Alias Grace
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Alan J. Perlis
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
Alan J. Perlis, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

Harold Abelson
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 ...more
Harold Abelson, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

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