SICP Considered Harmful

Its not relevant to the industry, its badly written, and its considered harmful and detrimental to developing the skills of new programmers.  It should only be recommended for its historical value, so pretty much only if you plan to have career in academia.  Instead please recommend a book such as 'The C programming language' to newbies or ex web-designers looking to get a good foundation on the fundamentals.

I don't want to see SICP mentioned around here anymore or you will be reprimanded, please follow the lead of computer science institutions around the world and don't teach SICP anymore.  Thanks, and welcome to 2009.

I was thinking about it, and since there's really only one right way to do everything in python, it makes perfect sense that python should replace scheme in the curriculum, since scheme lets you build powerful abstractions any way you like. It's too much for your average plumber to grasp, that pipes and sinks could be different. And if America stops training plumbers, well, India might just have less than 25% of their population in poverty, and we can't have that. So, leave the hard stuff to China and Europe, let's learn how to be plumbers.