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by theamk 2246 days ago
Agreed!

After taking a course which used SICP, I was so inspired I wrote a functioning Scheme interpreter in a couple of evenings - in C, with no external libraries. It was pretty limited (no tail recursion), but could run examples from the book.

That is not going to work with python - even just parsing the program will need a whole bunch of extra knowledge.