Because the JVM doesn't have tail call optimization, Clojure doesn't allow you to do many of the exercises in SICP the way they were intended to be done, so it

Because the JVM doesn't have tail call optimization, Clojure doesn't allow you to do many of the exercises in SICP the way they were intended to be done, so it misses the point of SICP. So for example: https://github.com/nickbauman/sicp/blob/master/src/section2_3_4/huffman.clj https://github.com/nickbauman/sicp/blob/master/src/section2_... You'll see I solved the exercise by ignoring what they were trying to teach because it can't be done in Clojure they way they were trying to teach it. I did learn how to make a tree with only lists, which is cool.