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

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466 points pieterr | 1 comments | 16 Nov 24 17:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | 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. whimsicalism ◴[17 Nov 24 01:26 UTC] No.42161196[source]▶
yes, i like ML (well.. ocaml) and bounced off SICP for the same reason. It was actually SICM that made me come back and stick with it, the ideas were just too interesting (whereas for SICP it was a lot of ideas I was already familiar with)