I have worked through much of the SICP book, and loved it. I think the author is just trying to emphasize that it's a really great book. Not that it's some so

I have worked through much of the SICP book, and loved it. I think the author is just trying to emphasize that it's a really great book. Not that it's some sort of initiation that you must go through before you're a "real" software engineer.