Comment by jstimpfle
12 days ago
I've had an introductory Scheme course in a smaller university, and have experience designing data structures, creating parsers & interpreters, and with multi-threading and networking.
I was never one to really dig lisp. I prefer the structure and the groundedness of a statically typed systems language (I mostly do systems work). But I took on reading SICP in the hope of finding something new and interesting, and to level up my skills. However, I got bored by the it. Probably made it through more than half of the book.
It's a bummer because I'm left with the feeling of missing out. Am I not worthy or too obtuse to get what's so great about the book? Or maybe I am in fact not the target audience, having too much practical experience that the book doesn't seem worth my while.
If you're comfortable writing interpreters you've probably already picked up on most of the "big ideas" SICP is trying to teach. It's a very good introductory book, but it is still just an introduction.