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Holy crap take a look at some of the JS examples in Chapter 4 - functions declaring functions declaring functions returning functions

• labrador 5y ago
  I hate this style of coding. I don't see how it's any better than turning everything into data and code in encapsulated class objects and passing them around
  • skybrian 5y ago
    You shouldn't read SICP as a guide to practical programming. A lot of things in it would normally be bad style or contrived, but it's interesting to know that they are possible.
  • ravi-delia 5y ago
    It's handy sometimes, but I think it starts looking worse the further from Scheme you travel. Even in Common Lisp it's probably too far, but with a Lisp-1 you get some really pretty high-level abstractions. Of course I find I don't miss them very much, but they sure are fun.