> But uh, yeah, all of y'all recommending SICP as an intro to programming need to stop. Your target audience, if they take up programming at all, as a hobby, as a profession, or as a way to help them do their real work, is probably not going to use Scheme.

Some of us are working on that, and that's all I'm gonna say right now. And yeah, maybe that's not going to work out. Anyone see a white whale around here?

> Plenty of copies of TAOCP sit unread on bookshelves for this same reason also.

I'd say that TAOCP is more of a reference work than a course textbook. It's a completely different kind of book to SICP.