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by ng12 2375 days ago
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.
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.