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!bookworms !math !physics !chemistry a thread to recommend textbooks either for other stemcels wishing to get a deeper understanding of their fields or for hobbyists who want to learn (please state the necessary knowledge to use the textbook. E.g. a Fluid Dynamics textbooks will require the user to know Differential Equations and Calculus 3).
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I finally bought SICP a couple months ago, as someone who already has a programming background but has only done OOP slop since inception. I would like to hear arguments on why it's a bad choice.
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1. Hard to maintain
2. Hard to distribute work
3. Side effects are hard to achieve and require careful deliberation
But I think jane street uses ocaml for their development
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I'm less interested in being a full time LISP shill than training a new paradigm to think with. The book opens explicitly saying that it's not a LISP book, but just a specific way to reframe problems. Importantly, a lot of concepts from LISP are used in nearly all modern languages that I don't grasp well or at the very least know how to use them for common use cases (list comprehensions, MS Linq, lambdas, callbacks).
For example, it is extremely easy to represent a case analysis in LISP. It translates almost word for word to a mathematical representation. I have never thought this way when trying to set up boolean expression for conditionals in other languages.
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