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 <gath.na.geala...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 11:01 PM, Kirk Fraser <overcomer....@gmail.com> > 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 > fonc@vpri.org > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc > _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
