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by nromiun 2246 days ago
People say SICP is bigger then Scheme and then get outraged when someone implements it in another language.
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rfrey 2246 days ago
Beethoven is bigger than "piano". Also, there is very little outrage in this thread - some sadness, some resignation, some head shaking sure, but not outrage.
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greenshackle2 2246 days ago
It doesn't have to be Scheme but I'm skeptical you can do full justice to the metaprogramming parts of SICP if you're not using a homoiconic language.

Unsurprisingly, "SICP in Python" reverts to a Lisp dialect for those parts of the book.

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