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Hadi Oct 25, 2024

40 years of magic

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Keynote presentation by Hal Abelson and Gerald Sussman at the fourteenth RacketCon

Keynote presentation by Hal Abelson and Gerald Sussman at the fourteenth RacketCon * Introduction by Sid Kasivajhula* Gerald Sussman: Teaching People Thinkin...

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“Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.”
― Hal Abelson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Abelson

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clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛Jan 31, 2021

Influentual and smart people in computer science disagree, in polar opposition, on whether computer science is definitely about programming computers, or whether it is definitely not about programming computers.

Our answer to this decides what it is that we should teach in computer science departments at universities.

In Eric Normand's reading of Hamming's Turing Award lecture, he offers extensive commentary on this dilemma:

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One Man's View of Computer Science - LispCast

In this episode, I read from One Man's View of Computer Science, the 1968 ACM Turing Lecture by Richard Hamming.

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