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Got it. Strange, that's the link google search gives me. Also, it shows me price for Ukraine (where I am)

Thanks for the feedback! I recognize the deficiencies of my English writing. Moreover, the current state of the book is, in fact, much-much better than the original manuscript thanks to the efforts of Dr. Robert Strandh, phoe, and Apress proofreaders. As for the residual ugliness - c'est la vie...

sorry, can you elaborate on that? (I'm affraid I didn't understand the question)

You're quite right that SICP is about the fundamentals. Progalgs is about writing efficient programs. It's for those who already understand the fundamentals.

thanks for the feedback!

In the preface, I discuss a bit the topic of how algorithms are taught in the universities versus how they are actually used. I made a choice to lean heavily towards the "practical" approach. So, from the perspective of a student, this shouldn't be your principal manual, the theory isn't presented in the best possible way, to say the least. (As a manual I'd recommend Skiena, or you can use Cormen etc.) But if you read the book as supplementary material it can give you a different perspective on those theoretical concepts and, hopefully, you'll get more value from studying them as you'll see where it all leads and how you might be using the obtained knowledge in your further work. As for Lisp, I don't think that picking it for any smart student should be a problem.

More of the second: i.e. teach algorithms using Lisp. The secondary goal is to get people more accustomed with Lisp.

Yes, I plan to have a paperback version for $20+shipment. If you send me an email to [email protected] I'll include you in the distribution (and send the details on how to pay and receive a copy in a week or two)

thanks for the notice (my typing habit is such that I often don't press the keys hard enough which results in missing letters - easy to see thanks to the spellcheckers when a normal word is misspelled, not so hard for personal names though). Typo fixed