Hi, I don't think this acronym is in wide use, but probably Introduction To Algorithms by Cormen was meant.
Cheers, Jarosław Rzeszótko 2013/4/5 Piers Cawley <[email protected]> > Okay, SICP, EOPL and TAPL I've worked out (own/am working through > slowly). But ItoA? Google wasn't exactly helpful here. > > On 4 April 2013 22:22, Gath-Gealaich <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 11:01 PM, Kirk Fraser <[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> > >> > >>> Fortran was displaced in business because early Fortran had no > structures > >>> and random record-oriented file access, and because of some silly > government > >>> requirements for computer system procurement. > >> > >> > >> Not according to management at Champion International. > > > > > > I have no idea what "Champion International" is and why I should care, > but I > > *do* know that the US DoD made an early requirement for all computer > system > > providers in defense contracts to provide all computer systems with > COBOL, > > and that was it. > > > >> I am guessing the three fundamentals educators agree to are implemented > in > >> obscure ways in the languages you are thinking of. For example in > >> primitives or composition. > > > > > > My three fundamentals come specifically from Sussman and Abelson. If > Sussman > > and Abelson don't qualify as educators, then I don't know who else does. > > Note that I'm ignoring all the crappy "educators" who actually display a > > severe syndrome of tunnel vision in their textbooks, such as those that I > > was forced to endure in my youth before I found *actual* quality > education > > materials such as SICP, EOPL, TAPL, ItoA etc. > > > >> "The Bible is the fundamental document of America's Founders" > > > > > > "Book X is a fundamental document of person Y" is a meaningless syntactic > > structure, unless you actually want to claim that there is Ben Franklin's > > biography stashed somewhere in the Books of Kings. > > > >> > >> "which made the most important and powerful nation in the world rise > from > >> 13 colonies. Thus you lost your bet." > > > > > > I bow to your awesome powers of non sequitur. > > > > - Gath > > > > _______________________________________________ > > fonc mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc > > > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > [email protected] > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc >
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