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Wizard Book n. Hal Abelson's, Jerry Sussman's and Julie Sussman's Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (MIT Press, 1984; ISBN 0-262-01077-1), an excellent computer science text used in introductory courses at MIT. So called because of the wizard on the jacket. One of the bibles of the LISP/Scheme world. Also, less commonly, known as the Purple Book. Comments or questions Contact Us. How to Design Programs. The New C Standard: a free download. Updated Jun 09 Version 1.2 has been released. The 10.5M pdf can be downloaded from here. The Shape of Code blog contains observations on the shape of code, plus some thoughts and musings on why this shape occurs. Major changes Over 35 new references, mostly to papers published since the last version was published (Jan 08). Some new source code measurement tables and figures added and some existing ones tuned.
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