Why should I read SICP?

Just a quick question, why?
/prog/ acts like it's the only thing you'll ever need, and that it's crucial, otherwise you won't get anywhere. I'm just wondering: why should I read it?
Inb4 Troll.

Because it's the only thing you'll ever need, and it's crucial, otherwise you won't get anywhere.

Well, it looks like i'm being trolled already, however if anyone can back that up, i'll read it.

Its 100% full of abstract concepts. Totally pure and autistic.

/prog/ is a forum for Liberal Arts majors to show off how they can make a factorial calculator in ParenBASIC.  SICP taught them how to do this.  It's the only thing they ever needed.

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>>3
I've read it and I can tell you that it's all I've ever needed, it's crucial as my introduction as a computer wizard and I certainly couldn't get here today without it.

It's the first step to satori.

>> Its 100% full of abstract concepts. Totally pure and autistic.

Why do people spend millions of dollars on motivational speakers and self help book? Its called abstraction, when you take a step back and take a look at the big picture, you find that a lot of mundane problems disappear if you just take a higher level strategy. Same goes for programming, you abstract thing and all of a sudden a lot of mundane problems go away.

>>9
Wow, thanks, nobody ever knew about that, especially those who have even a vague idea of how computers and programming work.

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