# Functional programming learning path

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> [@peerreynders](#):
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> [SICP with DrRacket](https://www.neilvandyke.org/racket/sicp/) may be a bit academic (though [Peter Norvig’s Amazon review](https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R31C8A6DY95ZCH) is an entertaining read).

True story →

I’m sure most people here are too young to remember [Jerry Pournelle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle). He was a science fiction author who wrote a column for Byte magazine for many years about his tinkering with computers. In my opinion, they started out as reasonable accounts of exploration by a hobbyist. But over the years they somehow morphed into an almost-knows-nothing guy annoyingly pretending to be an expert (boring accounts of tortuous feats of kludgery to avoid new-fangled tech).

Anyway, after the publication of SICP, there was a corkboard outside Sussman & Abelson’s offices covered with reviews of the book. In a place of honor, dead center with some space around it, was Pournelle’s review which stated “I didn’t understand a word of it.”

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