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The Harold Ableson GIF of him scratching out the word Science, then the word Computer comes to mind.

Something echoed by Ableson and Sussman and reflected in their choice of Scheme for it's Newtonian lack of complications.

If Ableson confirms what this article alleges, no hacker with a shred of humanity would attend MIT.

Sure, Clojure's syntax takes an hour versus the thirty minutes Ableson takes to cover Lisp syntax including the substitution model.

It was a common background Ableson and Sussman could safely assume everyone taking the course could do without much sweat, i.e.

You could tell he really cared about his students and loved teaching computer science -- especially from Ableson and Sussman's masterpiece.

That's what Ableson is so intensely passionate about in the video, not the theory.

Sussman was the co-inventor of Scheme and still loves it, Ableson I don't know, and don't Felleisen et.

There are videos, too, of Sussman & Ableson teaching the book to class of HP employees Too lazy to find y'all a link.

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Ableson and Sussman.

Since I personally heard Sussman & Ableson bitch about how awful Basic was, I'll have to say that you are wrong in this regard.

To use the language of Ableson and Sussman in Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs [node 15]: The fast doubling algorithm has a recursive definition and produces a logarithmic procedure.

I am reminded here of Harold Ableson's dictum that programs should be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.

Ableson and Sussman might beg to differ.

It is more directly an introduction to Computer Science [despite Ableson's questioning the utility of the term 'computer science'] whereas HtDP is more of an introduction to the practice of programming.