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

The article has a broken link for the free copy:

https://mitp-content-server.mit.edu/books/content/sectbyfn/b...

https://web.mit.edu/6.001/6.037/sicp.pdf

I hadn't seen a blessed PDF version until today. Circa 2001, only the HTML version was freely available, and someone converted it to TeXinfo: https://www.neilvandyke.org/sicp-texi/

If anyone wants to work through SICP today, you can run the code in MIT Scheme, or in DrRacket: https://www.neilvandyke.org/racket/sicp/

For anyone wishing to try: the maintainers of MIT Scheme no longer provide a .dmg but you can download and build the x86_64 version of MIT Scheme. The current release (v12.1) works on a Mac running Sequoia with Intel CPU or on Apple silicon via Rosetta. But the native code compiler (not necessary for SICP AFAIK) is a little broken. (Anecdotally it worked on macOS prior to Monterey, so maybe an Apple-supplied dependency changed. Haven't tracked down the issue.)

All of that is to say: if you do not need MIT Scheme and don't want to fuss with compiling it, then Racket might be a better way to go.

most package managers have it, including apt and brew, so most of the time no need to build your own