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ng12 on Dec 18, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs ...

There's a reason SICP isn't called Structure and Interpretation of Lisp Programs. Lisp is incidental.

edflsafoiewq on Dec 18, 2019 | [–]

There is a reason SICP uses Lisp.

ng12 on Dec 18, 2019 | | [–]

There is. Scheme is a great pedagogical language. The book isn't _about_ Lisp though.

caiocaiocaio on Dec 18, 2019 | [–]

Imagine a book where you wrote a bunch of Javascript implementations without learning Javascript.

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