In the first lecture, Abelson says Computer Science is neither a science nor is it really about computers. Considering the current ML paradigm, maybe CS has finally earned its name as a science.
The SICP video lectures with Gerald Sussman and Harold Abelson got me into Scheme and from there on Lisp. Although now I'm wondering if this would be better as a 'Show HN' submission.
i watched the lecture series during the pandemic and commented on many of the youtube videos. in at least one instance, a library function is used on the board that is not compatible with the current function signature in mit scheme.
I suppose it is something to do with the fact that it has been, what, almost 40 years since the lectures?
The fact that most of the code would still work is a miracle. That wouldn't work for, say, Java (which didn't exist in 1986). Nor C++. Nor Javascript (also not there back then). Fortran and C might be able to pull it off (but barely).
Remember, we didn't have computers worth the name back then. Shoot, we didn't even have dirt yet, just rocks.
https://sarabander.github.io/sicp/html/index.xhtml#SEC_Conte...
And also this:
https://eli.thegreenplace.net/tag/sicp
EPUB - https://github.com/sarabander/sicp-epub/blob/master/sicp.epu...
PDF - https://github.com/sarabander/sicp-pdf/raw/master/sicp.pdf
https://melpa.org/#/sicp
https://lockywolf.wordpress.com/2021/02/08/solving-sicp/
The math stuff is brutal.
I suppose it is something to do with the fact that it has been, what, almost 40 years since the lectures?
The fact that most of the code would still work is a miracle. That wouldn't work for, say, Java (which didn't exist in 1986). Nor C++. Nor Javascript (also not there back then). Fortran and C might be able to pull it off (but barely).
Remember, we didn't have computers worth the name back then. Shoot, we didn't even have dirt yet, just rocks.
The ~29 years deprecated java.util.Date* methods would like to have a word. ;-)
*https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/25/docs/api/java.base...