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The Little Schemer

Friedman and Felleisen

Recommended by 3 people on the record.

The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Adam Tornhill recommends it
The Little Schemer by Friedman and Felleisen. This book won't teach you Scheme. Rather, it teaches something more valuable: it teaches how to think recursively.

on adamtornhill.substack.com · 11 Aug 2026

Steve Yegge liked it
This is without question one of the weirdest technical books you'll ever encounter. But don't be put off by the format.

on sites.google.com · 15 Apr 2010

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.