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
> >
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