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Also relevant, Rich Hickey listed the books that inspired him to create Clojure in his own Amazon account: https://www.amazon.com/ideas/amzn1.account.AFAABBRGIVOWVKTHP...

Easier to browse list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/137472.Rich_Hickey_s_Clo...

I find it interesting he includes Mozart/Oz (CTM). It'd be great to see more ideas from that language coming to Clojure.

Also Norvig's AIMA. Clojure could be well positioned for neuro-symbolic AI. That's somehow connected to Anglican, discussed in the History of Clojure article.

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Funny that it includes Instructor's Manual for SICP but not SICP itself. I wonder if anyone has read it (the manual), is it good? Seems it is not available online.

I think it's suitable for people who are trying to work through SICP by themselves, it contains some discussions and extra exercises that could be helpful in that scenario. Otherwise I think it's just like a small addition and won't vastly shape your experience with SICP, the main content is in the main book :)

The Goodreads list has "Programming Clojure by Stuart Halloway", I guess it's an error or included more as an introduction to Clojure?

This book was written before Clojure was released as 1.0. (1.0 and Programming Clojure were released together!) Stu and Rich worked closely at that point. The process of writing the book and Stu were influential on Clojure.

Has Anglican been used in any significant project?

It looks interesting (though tbh I barely understand what it does.. it's borderline technobable to me) but I haven't been able to find it used anywhere on Github. It's also gotten zero updates since 2018

Doesn't mean it's not a hidden gem... I would have said something similar about Missionary as well

I think the main outcome from Anglican was a great theoretical textbook: https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.10756

But it is probably too expressive, and therefore too slow, for most practical inference problems.

Funny that it includes the hammock :)

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