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I re-read SICP recently, because I was teaching a friend.

I had very rose-tinted nostalgic memories. They did not hold up.

"How to Design Programmes" is a much better book. (But made for rank beginners.) And for the more advanced, "Types and Programming Languages".

See "Why Calculating is better than Scheming" (https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/dat/miranda/wadler87....) for a critique.

Don't get me wrong, SICP is still a good book to have read. Just no longer my favourite.




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