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by 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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There's a reason SICP isn't called Structure and Interpretation of Lisp Programs. Lisp is incidental.
There is a reason SICP uses Lisp.
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.
That's a pretty narrow view of the teachings to be gained from SICP.