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> Nice to see Reddit knows about SICP though!

...truly a tome from the abyss of obscurity.

Seems super common and overhyped for the HN or /prog/ community, sure. Though, at 5 jobs over 3 years I haven't worked with a single person who's ever heard of SICP (or really any programming book for that matter). That includes security & big Data work at a Fortune 500.

Quite few professional programmers (in the grand scheme of things) actually read programming books unless they're forced to.

> Quite few professionals (in the grand scheme of things) actually read programming books unless they're forced to.

FTFY. I agree, it's a shame but at the same time I understand.

Why should a barber, mechanic or whatever be expected to read books about programming? Your fix makes the sentence easier to read, but only with a trade-off

I can't tell if you're joking or not. If you read HN ten years ago, you would hear about SICP and Lisp constantly. Makes sense when you consider who made this site.

I am, I know and I know.

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