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It won't take longer than 15 minutes to get racket installed, and that's being extremely conservative. If you can't spend 15 minutes getting setup done, why wou
by d3nj4l 5y ago
It won't take longer than 15 minutes to get racket installed, and that's being extremely conservative. If you can't spend 15 minutes getting setup done, why would you finish a dense book on the theory of computation?
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- cbm-vic-20 5y ago
- gumby 5y agoThe scheme version was aimed at students who might never have touched a computer before. Why should this book be different, though these days aimed at students who’d only operated a computer before.
- bitwize 5y agoWhen the Scheme version was written, all the programming languages were equally weird to incoming students. So Scheme was as good a starting point as any other. Today, Scheme is still weird, but JavaScript is familiar. It's something the incoming students are at least likely to have heard of. So it makes more sense to ease them into the material with the familiar rather than drop them into something weird.
- filoeleven 5y agoBy that logic, North Korea is a better vacation spot than Niue, since most people are at least likely to have heard of North Korea.
- filoeleven 5y ago(Just to be clear, that was intended as a friendly poke, not a scathing rebuke. I do think lisps are better suited for SICP than JS is for the reasons others have mentioned, but I’m not trying to be a jerk about it.)
- dunefox 5y agoIt's not if the familiar language obscures the central ideas.