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Structure and Interpretation

of Computer Programs

second edition

Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman

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This book is one of a series of texts written by faculty of the Electrical Engineering and Computer

Science Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It was edited and produced by The

MIT Press under a joint production-distribution arrangement with the McGraw-Hill Book Company.

Ordering Information:

North America

Text orders should be addressed to the McGraw-Hill Book Company.

All other orders should be addressed to The MIT Press.

Outside North America

This book was set by the authors using the LATEX typesetting system and was printed and bound in the

United States of America.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Abelson, Harold

Structure and interpretation of computer programs / Harold Abelson

and Gerald Jay Sussman, with Julie Sussman. -- 2nd ed.

p. cm. -- (Electrical engineering and computer science

series)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-262-01153-0 (MIT Press hardcover)

QA76.6.A255 1996

005.13'3 -- dc20 96-17756

Fourth printing, 1999

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This book is dedicated, in respect and admiration, to the spirit that lives in the computer.

``I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it

started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then,

and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously. We began to feel as if we really were

responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines. I don't think we are. I think we're

responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house. I hope

the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun. Above all, I hope we don't become missionaries.

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