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)
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.
