I had a hallway conversation with Sussman a few years ago and asked him why SICP was phased out, and the above is exactly what he said in reply. He was not at a

I had a hallway conversation with Sussman a few years ago and asked him why SICP was phased out, and the above is exactly what he said in reply. He was not at all happy about the fact that many if not most engineers nowadays were being taught "tinkertoy" or "erector-set" engineering (pretty sure he said one of those words literally) rather than the fundamentals that would allow them to write their own libraries instead of hooking together libraries built by others and being adrift when they didn't work.