Hard to whittle that down to 7, on the bubble:

- The C Programming Language #BrianKernighan #DennisRitchie
- The Crucified God #JurgenMoltmann
- The Upside Down Kingdom #DonaldKraybill
- The Little Schemer #GeraldSussman
- Think and Grow Rich #NapoleonHill
- The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind #JulianJaynes
- Strength to Love #MartinLutherKing

@coderCyclist

(2/2)

Note that while #Scheme implementations are required to do the optimization so as to conform to the standard, any halfway decent #CommonLisp implementation will also do it, although the standard doesn't require it.

The implementations of numerous other languages also do it.

It's state of the art since the 1970ies, when the point was made in the #LambdaPapers by #GuySteele and #GeraldSussman.

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@acousticmirror @fossandcrafts @cwebber
> .. one of the key aspects of programming languages is to what extent they allow us to extend our problem-solving abilities by providing new ways of.. talking about problems..

The #GeraldSussman quotes keep sending me back to #TheSchemersGuide: Preface,
".. a course for our students that emphasized analytical thinking skills over technical wizardry.. programming is about sovling real-world problems, and is only peripherally concerned with.. machines"