From the preface to the first edition: > we believe that the essential material to be addressed by a subject at this level is not the syntax of particular prog

From the preface to the first edition: > we believe that the essential material to be addressed by a subject at this level is not the syntax of particular programming-language constructs... The whole preface talks about how the aim of the book is to get students to think with a programmer's mindset. Scheme is only incidentally the language the consider best for the task, due to its near-absence of syntax. https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-7.html#%_chap_Temp_4 https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/full-text/...