2 Feb
2022
2 Feb
'22
9:15 p.m.
Replying on COFF as firmly in COFF territory.
On 2022-02-01 16:50, Win Treese wrote:
I recall that one of the SICP
authors wrote an interesting summary of
6.001 (with Scheme) but I cannot find it.
Incidentally, SICP with Javascript will be released next year:
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/structure-and-interpretation-computer-progra…
N.
On Feb 1,
2022, at 1:19 PM, Noel Chiappa <jnc(a)mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
From: Clem Cole
I took 6.001 (with Scheme) in the
spring of 1983, which was using a course
handout version of what became Structure and Interpretation of Computer
Programs by Sussman and Abelson. My impression was that it had been
around for a year before that, but not much more, and it was part of
revamping the EECS core curriculum at the time. So by the late 70s/early 80s, [except for MIT
where LISP/Scheme reigned]
Not quite. The picture is complicated, because outside
the EECS department,
they all did their own thing - e.g. in the mid-70's I took a programming
intro couse in the Civil Engineering department which used Fortran. But in
EECS, in the mid-70's, their intro programming course used assembler
(PDP-11), Algol, and LISP - very roughly, a third of the time in each. Later
on, I think it used CLU (hey, that was MIT-grown :-). I think Scheme was used
later. In both of these cases, I have no idea if it was _only_ CLU/Scheme, or
if they did part of it in other languages. In at least the early 80s, CLU was used in 6.170,
Software Engineering
Laboratory, in which a big project was writing a compiler.
And Fortran was still being taught for the other engineering departments.
In 1982(ish), those departments had the Joint Computing Facility for a lot
of their computing, of which the star then was a new VAX 11/782.
- Win