> The author seems to think that Clojure has some conceptional complexity to it that is easier to overcome by doing a intermediate step with Racket. The sense

> The author seems to think that Clojure has some conceptional complexity to it that is easier to overcome by doing a intermediate step with Racket. The sense I got is that the author believes SICP is such an excellent teaching manual that it's easier to learn Clojure-via-Scheme using SICP than it is to learn Clojure via itself using any other resource.