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I was under the impression that it was simply what the robots were programmed in.

Of course, the politics isn't entirely one-sided. The foaming at the mouth that came from certain communities when it was suggested that perhaps Scheme and SICP aren't the one single universally true compendium of all useful CS knowledge now and forever was, well, off-putting.

" ... was, well, off-putting."

Perhaps. But that doesn't make them wrong. :)

From what Sussman has said about the subject, it is pretty clear that politics had nothing to do with it.

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