<story><title>Overview and Introduction to Lisp (1986) [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYKRVNQ_MqE</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mattkellyshow</author><text>A really moving and inspirational quote from the opening of SICP:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;A computational process is indeed much like a sorcerer&amp;#x27;s idea of a spirit. It cannot be seen or touched. It is not composed of matter at all. However, it is very real. It can perform intellectual work. It can answer questions. It can affect the world by disbursing money at a bank or by controlling a robot arm in a factory. The programs we use to conjure processes are like a sorcerer&amp;#x27;s spells. They are carefully composed from symbolic expressions in arcane and esoteric programming languages that prescribe the tasks we want our processes to perform.&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>Overview and Introduction to Lisp (1986) [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYKRVNQ_MqE</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cup-of-tea</author><text>This series is brilliant. Why don&amp;#x27;t they teach computer science this way any more? I was so disappointed to learn that MIT switched from Scheme to Python in Programming 101.</text></comment>