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Re:ai;dr by ginsider_oaks on Thursday February 12, 2026 @02:33PM (#46993847)
> Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.

from the preface of SICP.

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Re:ai;dr by bananaflag on Thursday February 12, 2026 @07:57PM (#46997548)
Well SICP was already considered here to be obsolete with the rise of the library-abstraction culture.
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Re:ai;dr by copperx on Friday February 13, 2026 @01:22AM (#46999536)
And AI is great at performing basic science on libraries.
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Re:ai;dr by so-cal-schemer on Monday February 16, 2026 @05:35PM (#47041291)
Is this sarcasm?

SICP is fundamentally about abstraction..

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