[agumonkey]

I never read Knuth but after swimming in FP and above for a while now, one thing that hit me is that:

1) even the most abstract things are still a bunch of tiny operations; but with structure

2) I peeked at Sutherland Sketchpad Thesis, and it's mostly 1).. full of 60s machine assembly but, it's nicely structured, very regular. I had probably more pleasure reading this than all of the OOP book I know combined.