&gt; SICP is a classic text, and although it is old, it has not aged. I wonder if this is a sign of a stagnation in the field of computing, that as the machines we use become exponentially more powerful, we still know very little about how to use them. In any case, SICP is still an excellent introduction to computing and does not need to be updated just yet.<p>The more I research into Xerox PARC papers, the more is clear to me how long we have taken to reach a developer experience that they had already available to them in the early 80&#x27;s.<p>The interest in the work developed by Bret Victor, Evan Czaplicki, Chris Granger among many others, shows how far we still are from catching up with those systems.<p>Sometimes looks like Romans looking at the state of technology available to the the common guy, after the fall of the empire.