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.

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Lisp is good in all the same ways that Sepples is good. You're not really writing programs in Lisp, you're writing a new language made from macros and then writing your program in that language. Understandably, a lot of people don't get this.

_{Of course, Lisp is not bad in most of the ways that Sepples is bad.}