From: Deven Ullman <mjdominus@...>
Date: 2007-10-25T00:45:02+09:00
Subject: Re: A Ruby/Rails bibliography

On Oct 16, 9:36 am, "Giles Bowkett" <gil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> My first intro to map, et al., was
> "Higher-Order Perl." (Basically a Perl translation of "SICP.")

It really isn't very much like a Perl translation of SICP.

SICP is the textbook for the MIT introduction to computer science
class, and as such addresses a lot of important foundational issues at
a fundamental level.

HOP, on the other hand, is a manual of techniques for programming in
Perl. It was never intended to address the important and significant
basic issues that SICP addresses, or to provide a basic education in
fundamental principles of programming or computer science, except as
far as is necessary to support the specific techniques that it does
discuss.

The two books are directed at completely different audiences, and
serve very different purposes.