SICP [Was: Re: [TUHS] ratfor vibe] (moved to COFF) - COFF

3 Feb 2022

Replying on COFF as firmly in COFF territory.

On 2022-02-01 16:50, Win Treese wrote:
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   On Feb 1,
2022, at 1:19 PM, Noel Chiappa &lt;jnc(a)mercury.lcs.mit.edu&gt; wrote:

 From: Clem Cole
  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.  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. 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.

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  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