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SICP: The only computer science book worth reading twice? (2010)

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462 points pieterr | 1 comments | 16 Nov 24 17:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | source
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alabhyajindal ◴[16 Nov 24 19:46 UTC] No.42158703[source]▶
I really wanted to like SICP but Lisp throws me off. I love Haskell and Standard ML however! Did others have a similar experience? Might be interesting to read a book similar in spirit to SICP but using a different language as a vehicle (No, I don't want to do SICP in JavaScript).
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1. linguae ◴[16 Nov 24 21:10 UTC] No.42159370[source]▶
You might be interested in a 1987 article titled "A Critique of Abelson and Sussman or Why Calculating is Better than Scheming" (https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/24697.24706), where the author advocates the use of KRC or Miranda as alternatives to Scheme. I don't know much about KRC, but Miranda is a statically-typed functional programming language that influenced Haskell.