Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (the Purple Book)

传说很强的一本书。挺想看一下子啦。最早从 gigix 那边听说来得。
想买很久了。一直没下手。
今天发现，好像，那个 MIT 上边有原版来者。

《计算机程序的构造和解释（原书第2版）》
http://www.china-pub.com/computers/common/info.asp?id=17992

SICP Web Site
http://www-mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/

(Full book) Contents
http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-4.html

专业术语
http://blog.csdn.net/longaway/articles/618182.aspx

再论语法糖
http://blog.csdn.net/gigix/archive/2006/02/26/610169.aspx

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Preface to the Second Edition 

Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble? Alan J. Perlis

The material in this book has been the basis of MIT's entry-level computer science subject since 1980. We had been teaching this material for four years when the first edition was published, and twelve more years have elapsed until the appearance of this second edition. We are pleased that our work has been widely adopted and incorporated into other texts. We have seen our students take the ideas and programs in this book and build them in as the core of new computer systems and languages. In literal realization of an ancient Talmudic pun, our students have become our builders. We are lucky to have such capable students and such accomplished builders.

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从序言看，好像说是一本 CS 的入门级基础。