Structure and interpretation of computer programs /
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman, with Julie Sussman ; foreword by Alan J. Perlis
EDITION STATEMENT
Edition Statement
Second edition
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
McGraw-Hill,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
c1996
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xxiii, 657 p. :
Other Physical Details
ill. ;
Dimensions
24 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [611]-617) and index
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
Building abstractions with procedures -- Building abstractions with data -- Modularity, objects, and state -- Metalinguistic abstraction -- Computing with register machines
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
"Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs has had a dramatic impact on computer science curricula over the past decade. This long-awaited revision contains changes throughout the text." "There are new implementations of most of the major programming systems in the book, including the interpreters and compilers, and the authors have incorporated many small changes that reflect their experience teaching the course at MIT since the first edition was published." "A new theme has been introduced that emphasizes the central role played by different approaches to dealing with time in computational models: objects with state, concurrent programming, functional programming and lazy evaluation, and nondeterministic programming. There are new example sections on higher-order procedures in graphics and on applications of stream processing in numerical programming, and many new exercises." "In addition, all the programs have been reworked to run in any Scheme implementation that adheres to the IEEE standard."--Jacket