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Does it matter that McCarthy won the Turing Award before Alan Kay? What a silly point. Is it awful that functions are black boxes? That they are bundled in libraries? Does it matte…

From the lead author: (1) The book is not finished yet. But it will appear with MIT Press, and I expect it to appear over the next year and a half or so. (2) Realm is best read aft…

Everyone, if you don't have time to read the book, do read the sections with 'design' in their title. Compare with Josh Bloch's apologia for the Java API and then ponder why HtDP[2…