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[1] Excerpt From: Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman with Julie Sussman.

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

If so, would it be useful to implement examples in a programming language like Gerald Sussman did in Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics?

I vaguely recall Sussman or Ebelson implementing car and cadr in terms of lambdas, for example.

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.

You could read+watch Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs and pretend that, instead of a suit jacket and fez hat, Sussman is wearing a kimono, hair bow, and animal ears.

In it, Sussman shows you how to: * Write a Lagrangian * Symbolically convert it into Lagrange's Equations * Compile those into native code * Numerically integrate the with an optimized numerical algorithm to get a path of motion.

Ben Collins-Sussman, one of the designers of Subversion, believes a centralised model would help prevent "insecure programmers" from hiding their work from other team members.

Raymond), "On Lisp" (Paul Graham) and "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" (Abelson & Sussman) all downloadable from official sites.

List was last updated in 1999 so missing good books like Sussman's Functional Differential Geometry where you convert formulas into programs.

Guy Steele is a genuine programming language expert who designed Scheme with Gerry Sussman, wrote the standard common lisp texts, the C reference manual and so on.

I always liked Abelson & Sussman's style, even though it's more textbookish.