SICP

Say, someone who has no prior experience with programming, and is at a rather 'young' age (Teen still) wants to get ahead of the game, and start up now, rather than later. Would one go about this by reading SICP? I've seen it linked so many times, I've only got to think it's a start.

the only thing that differentiates a scripting language is that its interpreted and runs on a VM. Sun was and MS is trying to convert the Java VM and .NET VM to handle dynamic typing. If that happens then even Java and C# will be scripting languages