Teaching the art of programming, in python

[Bijan Parsia]

Juergen A. Erhard <jae at ilk.de> wrote:

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> >>>>> "Bijan" == Bijan Parsia <bparsia at email.unc.edu> writes:
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>     Bijan> Warren Postma <embed at geocities.com> wrote:
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>     Bijan> [snip]
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>     >> Remember the famous 'Smalltalk-80 - The Language and Implementation'
>     >> purple-book?
>     Bijan> [snip]
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>     Bijan> Pedantic correction: The Language and Implementation version is the
>     Bijan> *blue* book. [...]
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> Pedantry time: I remember it as
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>   Smalltalk-80: The Language and it's Implementation
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> (though I haven't read it... yet)
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Pedantry time: I didn't actually refer to the title, though I didn't
correct Warren either :)

It's *still* a great book.

Ah, and I have the reference to the on line Implementation chapters, if
folks want to whet their appetite:
        http://users.ipa.net/~dwighth/

A couple of other cool classic papers are there to, including a
description of Smalltalk-76 which will soon have an image running on a
Squeak VM near you!

-- 
Bijan Parsia
http://monkeyfist.com/
...among many things.