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Re:Ask HN: As a developer what are your aha moments? by vincent-manis on Monday September 07, 2020 @08:21PM (#24404067)
- when I read Clark Weissman's `LISP 1.5 Primer' in 1968

- when I finished a student programming assignment a year later and realised that a well-chosen set of procedures constituted what we'd now call a DSL

- when I ported Martin Richards' very clean BCPL compiler and realized that you could write efficient code in something that wasn't Fortran

- when I read the Thompson/Ritchie paper on Unix

- when I completed my first reading of SICP

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Re:Ask HN: As a developer what are your aha moments? by greenleaf3 on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @04:16AM (#24406277)
SICP made me fall in love with Lisp even more. It taught me how powerful the tandem of function and closure can be.
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