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Re:SICP in Python by cutler on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @03:13AM (#23004346)
Next it will be SICP for Java. Is nothing sacred?
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Re:SICP in Python by wolfgke on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @06:49AM (#23005681)
Concerning "sacred": https://kingjamesprogramming.tumblr.com/
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Re:SICP in Python by Sorrop on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @08:44AM (#23006420)
This almost made me fell off my chair.

  5:5 And, behold, I will deliver you up to the programmer
  tendency to build overelaborate castles of abstractions
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Re:SICP in Python by JoeAltmaier on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @10:10AM (#23007115)
One person's overelaborate is another's perfection.

Behold! The abstraction in ethereal splendor makes mundane human existence bearable!

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Re:SICP in Python by parenthesis on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @11:46AM (#23008150)
I thought kingjames was going to refer to James Gosling.
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Re:SICP in Python by haolez on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @10:05AM (#23007068)
"Investigate the shell’s here documents and Python’s triple-quote construct to find out the Almighty unto perfection"

Now I won't sleep tonight.

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