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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs – JavaScript Adaptation

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Post by hwartig » Wed, Dec 18, 2019, 8:22 AM UTC

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs – JavaScript Adaptation
sicp.comp.nus.edu.sg

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Post by dprophecyguy » Wed, Dec 18, 2019, 10:03 AM UTC

Holy Shit... This is awesome ... !!!

Re: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs – JavaScript Adaptation

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Post by voldacar » Wed, Dec 18, 2019, 10:23 AM UTC

There's kind of a reason why SICP was written in Scheme in mind and not a blub language...

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Post by rakhalmadhu » Wed, Dec 18, 2019, 10:27 AM UTC

Awesome....

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Post by mpfundstein » Wed, Dec 18, 2019, 10:33 AM UTC

voldacar wrote: post #3

There's kind of a reason why SICP was written in Scheme in mind and not a blub language...

what a stupid comment. why is modern javascript a blub language?

and what does it matter anyway? the concepts are the same.

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Post by Theizestooke » Wed, Dec 18, 2019, 10:36 AM UTC

Is this the first adaption of SICP to a different language?

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Post by jcbrand » Wed, Dec 18, 2019, 10:37 AM UTC

voldacar wrote: post #3

There's kind of a reason why SICP was written in Scheme in mind and not a blub language...

JavaScript is heavily influenced by Scheme, this is actually mentioned in the linked to book.

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Post by lifthrasiir » Wed, Dec 18, 2019, 10:39 AM UTC

voldacar wrote: post #3

There's kind of a reason why SICP was written in Scheme in mind and not a blub language...

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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Post by mehrdadn » Wed, Dec 18, 2019, 10:51 AM UTC

Theizestooke wrote: post #6

Is this the first adaption of SICP to a different language?

https://wizardforcel.gitbooks.io/sicp-in-python/content/

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Post by mattacular » Wed, Dec 18, 2019, 10:58 AM UTC

voldacar wrote: post #3

There's kind of a reason why SICP was written in Scheme in mind and not a blub language...

Were you going to let the rest of us mere mortals in on the reason?

I think it's good to offer a version of SICP adapted to a language that's used today very prominently and is relevant to many current jobs in the industry.