{"id":3494,"date":"2011-06-10T15:54:45","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T20:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=3494"},"modified":"2011-06-10T15:54:48","modified_gmt":"2011-06-10T20:54:48","slug":"hal-abelson-qa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/10\/hal-abelson-qa\/","title":{"rendered":"Hal Abelson Q&#038;A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Seibel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.codequarterly.com\/2011\/hal-abelson\/\">interviews Hal Abelson<\/a> about a variety of topics (via <a href=\"http:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=2638875\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.codequarterly.com\/2011\/hal-abelson\/\"><p>Actually, when I was at Princeton, Knuth was visiting that year. If you remember, Knuth laid out the whole whatever it is, eight-volume, eight-book series. We found him walking around campus in &rsquo;68 and we said, &ldquo;Hey, we&rsquo;re undergraduates and we&rsquo;re doing this project, and we hear that Volume 4 is going to be about compilers. We want to write a symbol table; could we use the manuscript for Volume 4 to do this?&rdquo; Knuth said something like, &ldquo;Well, it&rsquo;s not quite done yet, but we&rsquo;re really close. I&rsquo;m sorry it&rsquo;s not going to be in time for your class project.&rdquo;<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Seibel interviews Hal Abelson about a variety of topics (via Hacker News): Actually, when I was at Princeton, Knuth was visiting that year. If you remember, Knuth laid out the whole whatever it is, eight-volume, eight-book series. We found him walking around campus in &rsquo;68 and we said, &ldquo;Hey, we&rsquo;re undergraduates and we&rsquo;re doing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3495,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3494\/revisions\/3495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}