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Maybe SICP will not be better for using Javascript, but perhaps Javascript programmers will get better for reading SICP? That would be very nice.
by zwaps 5y ago
Maybe SICP will not be better for using Javascript, but perhaps Javascript programmers will get better for reading SICP?
That would be very nice.
- Fellshard 5y agoI'd say JS-only devs would benefit from getting outside of their bubble ASAP, and the original SICP is a very good way to begin doing that.
- thrower123 5y agoNo, they'll get bad ideas and try to implement them even more badly. Everybody's dealt with that one asshole* who overdosed on category theory and proceeds to write Haskell in Python for the next two years. * It's me, I'm that asshole.
- gorjusborg 5y agoThanks for the laugh! Guilty here too, just not in python.
- gorjusborg 5y agoUntil js runtimes implement tail call optimization, recursive coding is only really feasible in an academic sense. In langs with proper TCO (like scheme and lua), recursion is a beautiful and practical way to solve problems.