> What dialect of Lisp should I use to follow along the book with? Any dialect of lisp will do fine if you know the language. SICP uses Scheme which is a lisp-

> What dialect of Lisp should I use to follow along the book with? Any dialect of lisp will do fine if you know the language. SICP uses Scheme which is a lisp-1 and mandates TCO. You can very well use lisp-2 viz. Common Lisp - you will have to do the translation for passing/calling function references, and your common lisp might not implement TCO. But none of it is required to follow the book.