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		jakear on Oct 26, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An Intuition for Lisp Syntax This was on a blackboard. And GJS advised Guy Steele in creating Scheme and coauthored SICP with him.

capableweb on Oct 26, 2020 | [–]

Yup, makes sense that you make mistakes then, as these folks are surely used to not having to think about balancing parenthesis anymore. Just as over-reliance on GPS will make your navigation skills without a GPS worse over time.

kgwgk on Oct 26, 2020 | [–]

> coauthored SICP with him

Not with him.

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