Programming by poking: why MIT stopped teaching SICP

Re:Programming by poking: why MIT stopped teaching SICP by bordercases on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @05:57PM (#11632251)

Closed source? Decompile the fker.

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Re:Programming by poking: why MIT stopped teaching SICP by jjnoakes on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @08:14PM (#11633016)

Sure. That makes it easy to reason about the code, see the abstractions clearly (at least as clearly as the author intended), make minor changes and submit patches upstream, recompile it with different options, ...

Oh, wait.

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Re:Programming by poking: why MIT stopped teaching SICP by Retra on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @08:33PM (#11633107)

If you don't have time to read the open stuff, you probably don't have time to pick apart the closed.

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Re:Programming by poking: why MIT stopped teaching SICP by adrianN on Thursday May 05, 2016 @01:36AM (#11634197)

I'm sure the lawyers in your company will be really happy to hear that.

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