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Insta buy. I love my SICP book. Need this for fun, perspective to teach juniors, and shelf art. Yes, I pre-ordered. For those complaining about it being in JS
by millerm 5y ago
Insta buy. I love my SICP book. Need this for fun, perspective to teach juniors, and shelf art.
Yes, I pre-ordered.
For those complaining about it being in JS, probably didn’t read SICP as it wasn’t about LISP. This isn’t about JS.
- turminal 5y ago> This isn’t about JS. That's precisely why it shouldn't be in JS. Edit: to clarify, javascript is full of random warts that you have to know about in order to use it effectively, that's why I think a language with less such warts would be more suitable for someone that wants to try out and use the ideas book introduces with caring too much about the language.
- millerm 5y agoThe most accessible runtime on the planet. To each their own. I loathe JS, but I also believe english is a crap language. English happens to be the only language I can effectively use to describe my ideas to others. :-)
- bmitc 5y ago> The most accessible runtime on the planet. In what sense?
- lkschubert8 5y agoIf you have a browser on a computer you have a js repl.
- bmitc 5y agoThat's what I had assumed but wanted to double check since "accessible" is ambiguous. However, it's not all that convincing of an argument. Several languages are installed as easy as a browser is. And loading a local file, such as code included with a book, in the developer console quickly goes beyond accessible.
- hajile 5y agoYou don't even have to install a browser on any popular OS you can name. JS REPL and dev tools are also far better than almost anything outside of Common Lisp.