Why Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Matters

Re:Why Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Mat... by zelphirkalt on Monday June 17, 2024 @03:22AM (#40703055)

That depends entirely on what kind of a ton of experience you have. If you have written Java/PHP/Python/JS for 20 years, SICP might teach you lots of new tricks. If you have worked a lot with functional languages, probably fewer, but still probably some in later parts of the book.

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Re:Why Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Mat... by llm_trw on Monday June 17, 2024 @03:44AM (#40703204)

I'd worked exclusively with functional languages and assignment operators implemented as lambdas blew my mind more so than all the monads in Haskell.

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Re:Why Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Mat... by ryukafalz on Monday June 17, 2024 @01:19PM (#40708246)

I'm still working through chapter 1 and, despite having some previous Scheme experience, let being syntactic sugar for lambdas just blew my mind the other day.

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