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What? You substituted SICP for a fucking
C book. They aren't even in the same category! Is the fact that some programs were expressed recursively in like, what, half of the first chapter, what put you off? Did you miss the bits about TCO and the recurring theme of transforming branching and stacking recursion into ``iterative'' versions? They were recursive only in syntax, are you advising Lisp programmers to unlearn Lisp so that they won't have trouble with all the
{}[]:;, ``in the Real Word''?
IHBT
But now, if you aren't encountering higher-order functions with some frequency, as you seem to rag on functional programming, the main theme of the first chapter of SICP, as you barely saw any algorithm expressed explicitly from there on, that means that you are either a student, you write low-level stuff or gaemz (which is decent, if only myopic of you to trash anything else) or... you write Scalable Java Turkey applications, one of the few languages designed in the last 30 years without support for actual closures. Enjoy your Enterprise.
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