Sussman Explains the End of SICP

Re:Sussman Explains the End of SICP by busterarm on Saturday February 04, 2023 @04:15PM (#34658368)

My impression is that engineers who've gone through the SICP have a much better overall sense of the structure of things and how they should be built.

Having worked with a lot of SICP-trained and non-SICP-trained engineers from MIT, I think I would prefer to work with the former. That said, it could completely be other factors.

Computer Science's recent ascension to "prestige degree" status over doctors, lawyers, etc. has had and will continue to have a lot of negatives for our industry.

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Re:Sussman Explains the End of SICP by karmakaze on Saturday February 04, 2023 @04:21PM (#34658417)

I'd like to take that as data but there are too many potentially confounding variables.

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Re:Sussman Explains the End of SICP by busterarm on Saturday February 04, 2023 @04:22PM (#34658424)

In the comment I agreed as much.

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Re:Sussman Explains the End of SICP by karmakaze on Saturday February 04, 2023 @04:54PM (#34658780)

But in phrasing it as 'prefer to work with SICP-trained' belies that, which might better be expressed as "were in CS at MIT" between 1980-2000. Edit: sorry meant as clarification, not a dig.

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Re:Sussman Explains the End of SICP by busterarm on Sunday February 05, 2023 @02:51PM (#34668459)

Oh, I didn't really take it personally. And you're absolutely right, there's certainly a kind of ageism undercutting my statement.

I'll try a little to counter a little that with an observation that experience isn't always everything.

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