Structure and interpretation of computer programs Ji suan ji ke xue cong shu
473 pages
Chinese language
Published 2004 by Ji xie gong ye chu ban she.
Wizard Book n. Hal Abelson's, Jerry Sussman's and Julie Sussman's Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (MIT Press, 1984; ISBN 0-262-01077-1), an excellent computer science text used in introductory courses at MIT. So called because of the wizard on the jacket. One of the bibles of the LISP/Scheme world. Also, less commonly, known as the Purple Book.
from The New Hacker's Dictionary, 2nd edition (MIT Press, 1993)
The concept is too hard to grasp for me, which let me realise that I have to understand other fundamental basics first.
9 years ago I added this book on my to-read shelf, according to Goodreads. Genius, as expected. Probably my favourite computing book of all time.
Also didn't finish. This is a very academic explanation of programming using all LISP examples. I got one good piece of info from it, given the single-assignment property of functional languages, recursion becomes useful because the paramter to the function becomes the index, which can change (increment) on each call.
