"I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing."
-- Alan J.Perlis
Dedication, SICP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oV7hiAsVTI
#cppcon #cpp #SICP
I totally agree with the speaker on the final slide: SICP is an absolute masterpiece.
Even though it's supposedly an introductory CS textbook, I learnt a lot by reading it after I had already been programming for over a decade.
In fact, I would have likely missed much of SICP's elegance if I hadn't been programming in imperative style for years.
So, am I using functional programming on a daily basis now?
No. And probably never will.
But I still think that every serious engineer should be exposed to these concepts.
