SICP Question

Guys, I have a question. Maybe a little background first.

I have a degree from a Java-only university, so I never really even thought about functional programming. In fact, after seeing all the weenies on this board, I thought, "Surely functional programming is dead and gone. Besides, what can FP do that my OMG SCALABLE ^{ENTERPRISE JAVA SOLUTION} can't? _{Enterprise all the way, baby.}".

But I've been reading Joel on Software (book and website), and I stumbled on the article called, "Can Your Programming Language Do This?" and I realized, no. None of the languages I know can do anything like that.

/prog/, I come to you a humble and contrite programmer. I'm willing to give Mr. Sussman and his book another shot. Will this teach me good solid functional programming, or will I be wasting my time? Will I learn all these wonderful, magical concepts such as first-class functions by reading this? IS THIS THE SATORI YOU SPEAK OF?

tl;dr

read SICP

Will this teach me good solid functional programming, or will I be wasting my time?
It will teach you, among other things, good solid ^* functional programming. It will not waste your time unless you approach it with a ``hahaha, I knows Java, I knows programming'' mentality and/or are a fucking idiot.

^* Where good, solid means ``what you should have learned as the first thing in your programming career''. I wasted 10 years, I hope you will settle for less.

>>1 Java-only "university"
fixed it for you

>>4
Thanks.

>>1
Of course, read SICP to learn about the real thing.

Anyone got a pdf copy?

>>7
I hope you die

>>7
Faggot

You're all worthless. Thanks for the help. I've made more progress on my own. This is why I left forums in the first place, is because of 30-40+ yr old assholes that think it's funny to be fucking deuchbags. Nice guys nice. I hope I see you assholes bleeding on the street and when you say, Help me! I'll piss on your fucking face, and then shit in your mouth and watch you choke to death. Fuck you

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16 Name: Anonymous 2013-01-18 23:33

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