Gerald Sussman

is this guy degrading computer programming with his SICP book?

I checked out the exercises and it's like a bunch of pointless exercises that are designed to exhaust your brain, and don't do much in terms of education or utility

thoughts?

he's a math boy like LAC was saying. he goes on about vectors early on in the book, being these cute little points on a 2D plane, then 600 pages later he's a deer in headlights with soiled panties because vector's now an array and we're talking vector-set! and vector-ref