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Well, my opinion is, he took something elegant and sublime and dressed it up in bullshit; there's nothing wrong with being playful and fun--as I mentioned earlier, Whittaker's "C#,…

Interpretation depends on the reader. Was I insulting anyone or was I making a general statement? It can go both ways. If you read my original comment, I expressed dis-preference f…

Once again, let me spell it for you. I haev no problem with Ruby. I just did not like why_'s bullshit. Make sense to you now? I respect Matz and his achievements.

Read his comment very carefully and you will see that I have merely returned the favor :)

It would have been more useful if the article had also listed the supply side of labor's economics, i.e. what are the costs of the programs that produce such workforce and which sc…

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his 'artsyness' was the main reason I avoided learning Ruby for years-- wrongly thinking people who code in Ruby speak like him. I know this is a possibly unpopular opinion but I d…

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i use Fira Code. nothing beats Fira.

I wodner why my original comment got downvoted though. What was wrong with wondering about that??

what the artic doesnt meantion is long covi from which strain? it would make sense, logically, to assume that long cov from delt is not the same as omic.

don't you think by saying "there were no known health issues triggered by it" you are committing a statistical fallacy? Just because something has not bee observed does not mean it…

The criticism in my previous comment backed by a valid and searchable source: "SICP does not adequately teach the fundamentals of programming." is huuge for a book claiming to the …

So what WERE they trying to do? BTW, here is a list of people who had criticized SICP. The list is full of heavy-weights: Philip Wadler Donald Knuth Eric Raymond Richard Bird Paul …

As I said, I am pretty sure I remember seeing that phrase by Wadler but can't find the paper now. However, even in your link, Wadler says: -"SICP is a brilliant book, but it is als…

Based on: WOOD, A. (2001). Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, 2nd Ed by Abelson and Sussman, with Sussman, MIT Press, 1996, ISBN 0-262-51087-1, 657pp. Journal of Fu…

SICP authors were not the originators of Lambda Calc. Even a noob like me knows that!

Based on: Forbus, K. D. (1985). Structure and interpretation of computer programs. Artificial Intelligence, 27(1), 124–127. doi:10.1016/0004-3702(85)90087: "several important topic…

Noob here. What was the justification of SICP using Scheme as vehicle of instruction? I feel the book is intellectually dishonest.

the only problem with Moxie's essay was the treyf reference to dogs. I love dogs. Dogs are better than most humans living around me.

Thank you very much, for educating me.

Wow, thank you for this great answer! It makes me wonder though why previous published mathematics about computer programming has been allegedly faulty. Since I don't know enough m…

Thank you! this looks solid--whereas I found Polya's "How to solve it" a pedantic and useless. Best wishes.

A math noobie here: I want to learn the TAOCP but the pre-req is Concrete Mathematics which I also find hard--it seems almost cryptic. Any ideas for a book before Concrete Mathemat…