AntonRich
Started reading SICP on a whim
I don’t know what happened today. But I just started reading SICP which I meant to do for a long time.
The book itself:
I’m not even sure whether I’ll finish the book. Yet, I see that it is written in an interesting way. Which at least makes a good past time reading : )
Is there anybody who finished it?
P.S. I’m doing it with Racket and the package called sicp.
It’s nice that Racket has a repl.
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AntonRich
Some interesting caveats I discovered as I ran this code.
-x here should be - x (with a space).
I couldn’t figure this out.
If I write -1 in racket it’s okay.
If I write (-1) it gives me an error:
application: not a procedure;
expected a procedure that can be applied to arguments
The cond is similar to cond in Elixir.
mindriot
Also super interested in thoughts on this one. I have it on my shelf and keep starting it then getting distracted with something else, been wanting to get into it properly for a long time
Benjamin-Philip
I just got back into reading it this month. I almost finished reading the first chapter during Covid, but just stopped for some reason.
Maybe we should start a book club for this? I wouldn’t mind leading one. This is quite a dense book, so I guess it would be pretty difficult to keep people engaged and reading.
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