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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 12 February 2014 09:08:47PM *  0 points [-]

Why are you committed to that book? SICP is well-tested introductory textbook with extensive exercises . Added: I meant to say that it is functional.

Comment author: JMiller 12 February 2014 09:31:15PM 0 points [-]

I'm not. The reason I picked it up was because it happens to be the book recommended in MIRI's course suggestions, but I am not particularly attached to it. Looking again, it seems they do actually recommend SICP on lesswrong, and Learnyouahaskell on intelligence.org.

Thanks for the suggestion.