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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs has been MIT's introductory pre-professional computer science subject since 1981. It emphasizes the role of computer languages as vehicles for expressing knowledge and it presents basic principles of abstraction and modularity, together with essential techniques for designing and implementing computer languages. This course has had a worldwide impact on computer science curricula over the past two decades. The accompanying textbook by Hal Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman, and Julie Sussman is available for purchase from the MIT Press, which also provides a freely available on-line version of the complete textbook . These twenty video lectures by Hal Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman are a complete presentation of the course, given in July 1986 for Hewlett-Packard employees, and professionally produced by Hewlett-Packard Television.
In Lisp, DSL’s are free. In fact, practically any program written in Lisp could be considered to be a DSL. First Class Procedures are a big part of this. Any procedure you write becomes a part of the programming language– your procedures are indistinguishable from the built-in ones.
This is the first update since the third printing by the MIT Press. This release corrects mistakes and typographical errors in the first three printings.