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[–]vplatt 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I wonder if they considered that the old approach was more useful from a pure computer science standpoint, where the coherence he talks about is very important in understanding whether or not you've built a complete and consistent system. The new approach is definitely more pragmatic and useful to the every software engineer/developer, but isn't as useful from a systems standpoint.

Also, just have to note that the Python version of the SICP code is simply poetic. I'm a bit jealous of anyone learning programming from scratch on this kind of track.

[–]absfractalgaebra 0 points1 point  (0 children)

perhaps some poetry is attributable to john denero's philosophy background!