Comment by zelphirkalt
12 days ago
That depends entirely on what kind of a ton of experience you have. If you have written Java/PHP/Python/JS for 20 years, SICP might teach you lots of new tricks. If you have worked a lot with functional languages, probably fewer, but still probably some in later parts of the book.
I'd worked exclusively with functional languages and assignment operators implemented as lambdas blew my mind more so than all the monads in Haskell.
I'm still working through chapter 1 and, despite having some previous Scheme experience, let being syntactic sugar for lambdas just blew my mind the other day.