Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

About this book

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs was written by Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman and Julie Sussman. This edition dates from 1996, and runs to about 883 pages.

It is shelved at QA76.6 .A255, which is where a library would file it.

What it covers

• Abstraction with procedures and with data.
• Modularity, objects and state, and the cost of each.
• Metalinguistic abstraction: writing evaluators for your own language.
• Register machines and compilation, built from the ground up.

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