SICP Distilled – An Idiosyncratic Tour of SICP in Clojure
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SICP Distilled – An Idiosyncratic Tour of SICP in Clojure
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#2Sweet. Clojure doesn't support call/cc, what's the plan for amb?
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#3This was funded in 2014 on Kickstarter, but it has been a while (2015) since the author provide updates to the backers.
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#4Sweet. Clojure doesn't support call/cc, what's the plan for amb?
There is apparently a port of cl-cont to clojure, but only delimited continuations using shift/reset. Delcc is probably the future of scheme anyway, but probably more in the form of prompts and aborts.
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#5I regret having wasted my time trying to work through this about 2 years ago:
- There's a lot of sloppy content, i.e. misspellings that a spell checker should catch.
- Some code is syntactically incorrect. Some hasn't been ported over and is still in Scheme.
- The author's claim that the core points are present is somewhat dubious, since only parts of chapter 1 are reasonably complete.
- The difference in writing quality from the original text and what the author has changed is quite jarring. The original's prose is efficient, insightful, and deeply connected with other content. The new stuff is at best blog-quality.
- The author has certainly abandoned this project. Nor does it look like he'd be up to the task, even if he did have the motivation for it.
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#6It took me some time to figure out what they mean with "SICP". The author assumes that of course everybody knows "SICP" no need to tell you what it is. Now I realize it refers to the book "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs".
I can buy that book, now what is this project about, what are its goals? Why should I support it? What will I get from it?
There is probably a simple and worthwhile answer but I think that should be given at the very beginning of the presentation. The lost art of the "Abstract"?
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#7I regret having wasted my time trying to work through this about 2 years ago: - There's a lot of sloppy content, i.e. misspellings that a spell checker should catch. - Some code is syntactically incorrect. Some hasn't been ported over and is still in Scheme. - The author's claim that the core points are present is somewhat dubious, since only parts of chapter 1 are reasonably complete. - The difference in writing qua…
It is too bad. It was a nice idea, started out OK, but petered out quickly.
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#8It took me some time to figure out what they mean with "SICP". The author assumes that of course everybody knows "SICP" no need to tell you what it is. Now I realize it refers to the book "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs". I can buy that book, now what is this project about, what are its goals? Why should I support it? What will I get from it? There is probably a simple and worthwhile answer but I t…
For computer scientists, the SICP is comparable to the Bible.
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#9It took me some time to figure out what they mean with "SICP". The author assumes that of course everybody knows "SICP" no need to tell you what it is. Now I realize it refers to the book "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs". I can buy that book, now what is this project about, what are its goals? Why should I support it? What will I get from it? There is probably a simple and worthwhile answer but I t…
The following is a review by some guy:
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#10Wow I remember this from a few years back. I think Berkeley teaches the course in Python now.