Summary:
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
has had a dramatic impact on computer science curricula over
the past decade. This long-awaited revision contains changes
throughout the text. There are new implementations of most of the major
programming systems in the book, including the interpreters
and compilers, and the authors have incorporated many small
changes that reflect their experience teaching the course at
MIT since the first edition was published. A new theme has been introduced that emphasizes the
central role played by different approaches to dealing with
time in computational models: objects with state, concurrent
programming, functional programming and lazy evaluation, and
nondeterministic programming. There are new example sections
on higher-order procedures in graphics and on applications of
stream processing in numerical programming, and many new
exercises. In addition, all the programs have been reworked to run in
any Scheme implementation that adheres to the IEEE
standard. **