Yes, and SICP was the book taking you through the abstraction barrier. Toto showing you the Wizard of Oz, behind the curtain. The point of the bureaucratic app

Yes, and SICP was the book taking you through the abstraction barrier. Toto showing you the Wizard of Oz, behind the curtain. The point of the bureaucratic approach is that how you use the spells together is more important than individual skill in making your own spells. This is more comfortable to bureaucrats than outright talk of wizardry, where clearly a wizard can do things that a bureaucrat cannot even explain.