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Re: SICP translated to JavaScript

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Post by rspeer »

snaky wrote: post #99

Why so square? Translating SICP to Forth would be at least eclectic and truly creative gesture.

JonesForth at least seems in the same spirit as SICP, though what it accomplishes is different.

It explains and implements a Forth environment from scratch, initially in literate assembler code (yes, that exists) and then, once that's bootstrapped enough, in literate Forth that it runs using itself.

http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wstein/www/home/wbhart/...

Re: SICP translated to JavaScript

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Post by beambot »

Tichy wrote: post #109
beambot wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds like that part of the system could be written once (in any language) and then encapsulated and treated as a local service... (analogous to using a local copy of SQLite if you need a db). Then you can use the "best tool for the job" on the client and-or server?

What if JS is the best tool for the job?

Then so be it. "The best tool" is a complex multi-value optimization that includes intangibles like personal preference. For me personally, server-side js wouldn't make any sense (right now) -- it's not my preferred language and it doesn't have the same sort of library support as other langs.

Re: SICP translated to JavaScript

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Post by qu4z-2 »

scorpion032 wrote: post #51

"An invasion of armies can be resisted; an invasion of ideas cannot be resisted" - http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Victor_Hugo_quote This generation is going to be rewrite in Javascript/v8, everything that can be written in Javascript.

And a few things that can't, I suspect.

Re: SICP translated to JavaScript

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Post by 59nadir »

neilk wrote: post #16

Obvious objections - JS has no tail call elimination, no macros, and state-changing is managed with entirely different conventions in Scheme. Also the conceit of SICP (not really justified) is that they don't have to teach you syntax, because homoiconicity. Still, I think it's a worthy pursuit to try to bring the insights of this book to a wider audience. Side note: the navigation is really irritating. The back butto…

> Also the conceit of SICP (not really justified) is that they don't have to teach you syntax, because homoiconicity.

What syntax is there to teach?

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