It's a comment based on our view of the historical record, having been present during the rise and fall of SICP. It is not a formal evidence-based claim.

Fair enough. And I hasten to add that I do not have any counter evidence. I think I heard rumors of the book when I was at gatech in the late 90s. Never took a course in that book, though. I wasn't in CS. CmpE was an interesting beast back then.

It seemed that the money was heavily pushing Java and that most curriculum immediately jumped to where they thought future money was. Sometimes they would back off and try to get back to a more theoretical or instruction based methodology, but would always hedge with a language that was seen as friendly to industry.

@taeric, by "the book" do you mean SICP or HtDP? HtDP was used for a few years at Georgia Tech, and then that stopped. There are various views on why. (-:

Apologies for the ambiguous pronoun. Sadly, I wouldn't have known one from the other back then. When I found SICP, some of the things I recalled hearing from CS friends made sense. So, I assumed that was the book.

Curious if there are any expansions on why it was dropped.