A few years when MIT switched from SICP/Scheme to Python, Sussman had this to say: "I asked him whether he thought that the shift in the nature of a typical pr

A few years when MIT switched from SICP/Scheme to Python, Sussman had this to say: "I asked him whether he thought that the shift in the nature of a typical programmer’s world minimizes the relevancy of the themes and principles embodied in scheme. His response was an emphatic ‘no’; in the general case, those core ideas and principles that scheme and SICP have helped to spread for so many years are just as important as they ever were" From: https://cemerick.com/2009/03/24/why-mit-now-uses-python-instead-of-scheme-for-its-undergraduate-cs-program/ https://cemerick.com/2009/03/24/why-mit-now-uses-python-inst... If anything, I would think Sussman is more practical, and understands what the world needs/expects(now). Literally any programmer who hasn't read SICP before will benefit from it. I think the principles still apply.