> Great to hear the views on programming from one of the authors of SICP.
I'll blog about it one day (I know it's been five years I've been saying that but hey) but... Sussman invited me for tea in his office so I ran to the MIT co-op but couldn't find SICP there so I told the person there I really needed that book for I'd see Sussman the next day: he called the Harvard co-op and they told me they had one copy in stock. So I uber'ed to the Harvard bookstore and bought SICP.
Next day I went to Sussman's office at the MIT and when I arrived Abelson was there, by chance (he was leaving) so they both dedicated me my copy of SICP. And Sussman added "had you been there 15 minutes earlier my wife would have signed it too!".
I had no idea his wife was the proofreader for SICP.
Fun story. Probably rambling by now but all this really happened. I've got a cool picture of these two wizards and me holding the purple book they just signed!
I'll blog about it one day (I know it's been five years I've been saying that but hey) but... Sussman invited me for tea in his office so I ran to the MIT co-op but couldn't find SICP there so I told the person there I really needed that book for I'd see Sussman the next day: he called the Harvard co-op and they told me they had one copy in stock. So I uber'ed to the Harvard bookstore and bought SICP.
Next day I went to Sussman's office at the MIT and when I arrived Abelson was there, by chance (he was leaving) so they both dedicated me my copy of SICP. And Sussman added "had you been there 15 minutes earlier my wife would have signed it too!".
I had no idea his wife was the proofreader for SICP.
Fun story. Probably rambling by now but all this really happened. I've got a cool picture of these two wizards and me holding the purple book they just signed!