"Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" in Python?

[Dirk Gerrits]

Ronald Legere wrote:
> Hmm, Dirk is quite right about that. But I had thought of doing the later
> chapters as 'scheme in python' rather then python in python. Yeah, it looses
> something of course. Or one could try to come up with some kind
> of 'little python'??  But then you have to learn to do all the
> white space stuff yourself.

Hmm, Scheme in Python, yeah that should be a lot easier. Good idea.

> "Dirk Gerrits" <dirk at gerrits.homeip.net> wrote in message
> news:mailman.1055850150.2919.python-list at python.org...
>  > As Ronald already noted, it could be done for the earlier chapters. But
> 
>>the Python grammar is a lot more complex than Scheme's. I think the
>>evaluators and interpreters of the later chapters would be quite a
>>challenge, and mostlikely many times larger than their Scheme
> > counterparts.

That should have been evaluators and *compilers* of course.

Regards,
Dirk Gerrits