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Re:Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs – JavaS... by lifthrasiir on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @05:39AM (#21823624)
That's fine as long as we have both a canonical version written in Scheme and good "translations" to other languages---including "blub". Good translations should not diminish the value of the canonical SICP. It can be argued that this particular translation is not good; I guess not, as SICP JS's version of metacircular interpreter does interpret (a subset of) JavaScript! The cost is of course this complex definition [1] of which language metacircular interpreter is written in and implements.

[1] https://sicp.comp.nus.edu.sg/source/source_4.pdf

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