I just wanted to take 2 minutes to thank you personally for that comment. Honestly its amazing to find another person on this planet who has the exact same reaction to this idea ! I was going to type out what you said pretty much word for word, and then I'm reading what you wrote & I'm like, hey, who's this person who has read my mind & how're they doing that ? For a minute it was like, completely mindblowing.
I think most of the comments below are entirely missing the point & thinking of this as JS hatred. Its more about...cultural degradation...Pedestrianization. sicp was holy grail. you looked up to it, you cherished it, it was something few people have partaken of & it was nice that way. then gradually that got diluted over time. berkeley did the python3 gig & that itself was icky but now this is a whole new low. sicp in js ?! jesus. what next ? are we going to sicp in qbasic ? why not a sicp do-over in Visual Basic so all them fogey 90s microsoft-for-life developers! developers! developers! on win95 code up COM DLL interpreters in Notepad++ ? where does the madness end ?
sicp & scheme. buttons & bows. mac & cheese. bread & butter. things that go together.
Now, sicp & js is...is..what is it ? mustard & jam ?
you know what would be real cool ? sicp in J !!! Now that's a marriage made in heaven. if i was a rich vc i would happily fork over a million for a sicp in J effort. the apl family has so much to offer! now that i recall, there was actually an effort called aprol http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~jhowland/aprol.paper.pdf
I think most of the comments below are entirely missing the point & thinking of this as JS hatred. Its more about...cultural degradation...Pedestrianization. sicp was holy grail. you looked up to it, you cherished it, it was something few people have partaken of & it was nice that way. then gradually that got diluted over time. berkeley did the python3 gig & that itself was icky but now this is a whole new low. sicp in js ?! jesus. what next ? are we going to sicp in qbasic ? why not a sicp do-over in Visual Basic so all them fogey 90s microsoft-for-life developers! developers! developers! on win95 code up COM DLL interpreters in Notepad++ ? where does the madness end ?
sicp & scheme. buttons & bows. mac & cheese. bread & butter. things that go together.
Now, sicp & js is...is..what is it ? mustard & jam ?
you know what would be real cool ? sicp in J !!! Now that's a marriage made in heaven. if i was a rich vc i would happily fork over a million for a sicp in J effort. the apl family has so much to offer! now that i recall, there was actually an effort called aprol http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~jhowland/aprol.paper.pdf