HAL%MIT-MC@sri-unix.UUCP (07/20/84)
From: Hal Abelson <HAL @ MIT-MC> The book "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" written by Gerry Sussman, Julie Sussman, and me has just been published (jointly by MIT Press and McGraw-Hill). This book is based on the introductory programming course that we teach at MIT. All programming is done in the Scheme dialect of Lisp (which nowadays is the entry-level programming language used at MIT). We attempt to present an "AI/Lisp"-flavored introduction to the issues of coping with the complexity of large software systems. We hope that this point of view can become an alternative to the Pascalitis that has infected so much of computer science education. Copies of the book should be available at the Lisp conference and at AAAI..