ilcosrn

Off-topic, but the each page of the site (not just the one linked to) makes my browser freeze for a couple of seconds and downloads ~3mb of crap. I don't think the ninja rockstar guru programmers are the only ones capable of writing a bubble sort and optimizing a page load.

You can't avoid dealing with javascript when doing web development. Before you mention something like coffeescript, I have to say first that the mixin, forwarding and delegating code were only several lines long. Compare that to the amount of code used to compile to javascript.

> The course would be difficult or impossible to complete using most other languages. The keyword is: homoiconicity, the "code=data" property of Lisp.

But if that is the case, wouldn't SICP be less language agnostic since (most of) the concepts taught cannot be universally applied to non-homoiconic languages?