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caiocaiocaio
2380 days ago
The target audience are people who don't want to learn Lisp but want to write a bunch of Lisp interpreters and compilers. Obviously.
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ng12
2380 days ago
There's a reason SICP isn't called Structure and Interpretation of Lisp Programs. Lisp is incidental.
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edflsafoiewq
2380 days ago
There is a reason SICP uses Lisp.
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ng12
2380 days ago
There is. Scheme is a great pedagogical language. The book isn't _about_ Lisp though.
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caiocaiocaio
2380 days ago
Imagine a book where you wrote a bunch of Javascript implementations without learning Javascript.
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slimed
2380 days ago
That's a pretty narrow view of the teachings to be gained from SICP.
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