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47: Executable textbooks with Sam Ritchie

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Closing and Scala in the Open Source World

Sussman: I took a copy of The Little Schemer on a backpacking trip to Nicaragua and went through the whole book with pen and paper. He got pulled into the world of open source with a project called Caskalog that Nathan Mars had created, he says. Sussman: What I thought was missing from tools like this was the ability to write code. "There's no kind of brain augmentation in the way that we were promised"

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