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SICP Distilled (sicpdistilled.com)
51 points by tosh on Dec 26, 2016 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



I started reading SICP for the first time over the weekend. I've been developing software for the last 5 years or so with a lot of ad hoc knowledge (Im self taught and mostly do PHP or Ruby based web projects), but I feel like lisp is interesting.

The concepts are familiar, but it feels more abstract in a nice and useful way.

I started with the videos, but they were wayyyyy too slow. Then I was reading the html version of the text. But this version is quite good. I am not yet sure what the differences between common lisp, closure, and scheme look like, (I'm still early in the book) but I think that this distilled version is marginally easier to follow.


This looks great, thanks for sharing.

Has anyone tried doing SICP in several different languages, and have thoughts on how Clojure compares to others?


I'd funded a kick starter campaign a couple of years back, wonder I'd this is that




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