SICP is a good book which teaches fundamental things which will make you a much better programmer. Newfags tend to brush it off as a meme, it's their loss.
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Anonymous2009-02-10 19:17
My worst nightmare is a world in which SICP is not merely not read, but the disciples of the Sussman are actively persecuted by the reigning principality of ENTEPRISE. This may sound like the murmurings of a madman, but let me assure you, Knights of the Lambda Calculus, that day is closer than you can imagine.
Let us stand together in the cudder's name so that this horrible vision will never come to pass.