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0 pointsng126y ago0 comments

There's a reason SICP isn't called Structure and Interpretation of Lisp Programs. Lisp is incidental.

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There is a reason SICP uses Lisp.

ng12OP6y ago

There is. Scheme is a great pedagogical language. The book isn't _about_ Lisp though.

Imagine a book where you wrote a bunch of Javascript implementations without learning Javascript.

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There is a reason SICP uses Lisp.

ng12OP6y ago

There is. Scheme is a great pedagogical language. The book isn't _about_ Lisp though.

Imagine a book where you wrote a bunch of Javascript implementations without learning Javascript.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse