Wasn't HtDP written to address issues in SICP ? completely or partially ? I always felt that HtDP was sharing more than a language to express programs in.
> It somehow goes for an entire fifth of a book without any data structure at all
Funny, in the MOOC I linked, from what I remember, they spent a lot of time writing programs without compound data types too. Only by having naive conventions (item0, item1,...) to let us recognize the logic behind complex type in the problem data and let it sink in our minds. I don't know how close to the book this was though so I don't wanna give off conclusions.
> Wasn't HtDP written to address issues in SICP ? completely or partially ?
Absolutely. (Though that wording suggests a stronger causal link than was really present. It was written to address a need, a need that happened to not be addressed by SICP.)
> It somehow goes for an entire fifth of a book without any data structure at all
Funny, in the MOOC I linked, from what I remember, they spent a lot of time writing programs without compound data types too. Only by having naive conventions (item0, item1,...) to let us recognize the logic behind complex type in the problem data and let it sink in our minds. I don't know how close to the book this was though so I don't wanna give off conclusions.