Why is this group so obsessed with SICP?

We get it. It's arguably the best intro to programming text, but it's an intro to programming text. Do you think that MIT, Stanford and Berkeley CS students jerk off to SICP for four years? They don't. They master it their first semester and they move the fuck on. They write C libraries in assembly. They write assembly compilers in C. They write virtual machines and interpreters. They hack kernels. They play with electricity. Mentioning SICP in every post doesn't make you look like REAL PROGRAMMER. It makes you look like a high school student.

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Yeah, managing complex dynamically allocated big tree data structures in a weakly typed unsafe language with manual memory allocation is a good idea. Why use a language with proper handling of tree-like data structures and automatic memory management that helps you instead of fail miserably with a segmentation fault when you do something wrong while writing a big, complex program that doesn't need to care about when the memory has to be allocated/deallocated such as a compiler?

IHBT