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@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ procedures are abstractions that describe compound operations
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: (define (cube x) (* x x x))
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is not about any number in particular, but how to cube any number
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+it describes 'how to'
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one thing we should demand from a language is the ability to build
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abstractions by assigning names to common patterns.
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