[mark_l_watson]

I got MIT Scheme running on my M1 MacBook Pro about 6 months ago when I bought the book "Software Design for Flexibility" and although I can't find my notes for that, I think I remember building from source natively, not via Rosetta - but I may remember incorrectly.

I also remember it taking a while to get Gerbil Scheme running on M1.

[bigdict]

How did you like the book?

[mark_l_watson]

I like it, but I have only worked about 1/3 of the way through it.

[bigdict]

What would someone who has worked through SICP learn from it (based on the first third that you've read)?

[kkylin]

I've also gotten through about the first 1/3. Based on this, and the table of contents, it goes into much more depth (both in terms of implementation and non-trivial illustrative examples) into a number of topics that are either only touched upon in SICP, or not discussed at all. These include combinators, generic functions, pattern matching, etc. There's a chapter on propagators, which didn't even exist when the last edition of SICP was written, though I think SICP does discuss related (but simpler) ideas on constraint propagation.

[bigdict]

Thank you.