Functional Abstraction examples from SCIP in Groovy

I had a case when I learned great information about the legendary course of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" from an essay I ordered from essays-service.com web, and it is worth emphasizing that I had to see it. I've been checking out the legendary MIT Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs course from 1986 on YouTube, and it's fascinating for many reasons, not least the hypnotic synthesized Bach that bookends each lecture. I don't think I will ever be able to hear Jesu, joy of man's desiring again without seeing that purple wizard. What's really striking to me is how quickly the course gets into territory that I (coming from a self-taught Perl/Java background) think of as pretty advanced. In the first three lectures we are introduced to:

  • Recursive subroutines
  • big-O notation ...
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