Episode
Tech Talk: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs with Hal Abelson
CoRecursive: Coding Stories · Oct 1, 2019 · 56 min
Tech Talks are in-depth technical discussions. Adam talks to Hal Abelson about the textbook he coauthored in 1984, SICP and why it is still popular and influential today. "If you pick up almost any computing book it starts out 'here are these datatypes, these operations that you do' and somewhere around 20 or 30% through the book, they show you how to define a function or a procedure. Whereas we…