Comment by Turing_Machine

> Considered a classic by who?

By just about everyone who's ever compiled a list of the greatest CS books of all time?

Here you go:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=classic+computer+science+books&t=b...

Count how many of those have SICP on their list (hint: most of them, excluding the ones that aren't actually lists of CS books -- e.g. the ones that have Jobs and Gates biographies, etc.)

I didn't just make that up, dude. And this isn't Wikipedia, either.