Why aren't we all speaking LISP now?

[Philip Armstrong]

In article <mailman.989734999.13738.python-list at python.org>,
Evan Jones  <EvanJ at eyron.com> wrote:
>	Yeah, this thread made me feel the same.  I've just spent the
>weekend reading 'Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs' (the MIT
>book on Scheme, which some one had mentioned earlier) to try and work out
>what all the LISP hype was about.  Any way I found the book more
>interesting/ useful than I guessed it would be, which got me thinking about
>what I've missed out on not studying computer science, so I was wondering
>what books people would put in their list of all time best/ must read
>computer science texts?

I haven't read it, but a lot of people in the scheme world refer to a
book called 'How to design programs' in the same breath as SICP. (It
regularly gets abbreviated to HtDP)

http://www.htdp.org/ for details...

Phil
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