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?

>>1

Yes. Forget SICP. CLRS is the new standard introductory text for aspiring programmers. No hippy-dippy, functional paradigm or "list processing" to be found there. No, sir, only loops with mutable counters operating on wholesome, God-fearing arrays. Granted, they're one-based and not zero-based arrays, but that's academics for ya.