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From: thinman@netcom.com (Technically Sweet)
Subject: Re: Could CommonLISP replace Scheme in SICP ?
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Organization: International Foundation for Internal Freedom
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Date: Mon, 24 Oct 1994 23:17:58 GMT
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You don't teach SICP so that your students know LISP.
You teach SICP so that your students can think.  
This works because Scheme is so easy that you don't have
to spend a lot of time on it.  The Scheme language
spec is 40 pages while the CL spec is nearly 1000.

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Lance Norskog
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