Characters
The book uses some fictional characters repeatedly:
- Ben Bitdiddle. He considerably predates this class, having been created by Steve Ward for use in problem sets for its predecessor, 6.031, in the 1970s. He has since appeared in a large number of other locations, including other classes at MIT and other institutions.
- Eva Lu Ator: the evaluator
- Louis Reasoner: the loose reasoner
- Alyssa P. Hacker: a Lisp hacker
- Cy D. Fect: A "reformed C programmer."
- Lem E. Tweakit: an irate user of Alyssa's interval arithmetic, enters p. 96.
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