Have you read your SICP today?

If I read SICP will I be a good programmer?

Absolutely not but you can pretend that you will be, just like every other desperate user reading this book.

SICP is just a meme designed to make fedoralords and atheist programmers feel that they are are dealing with deep philosophy in CS

I've read the preface

It gives a broad introduction and has nice perceptives on some topics. Reading and actively engaging with it (coming up with examples and solving the exercises) puts you in the Top 20% of cs students already, since most of them are only learning some Java with a sad bit of math.

It's also a fun book.

Cont. You become a good programmer by finishing many programming projects and reading tons of source code that people better that currently you wrote. Also be social about it, that way you will cover blindspots better and learn faster. And humans are wired to be social beings, so you are doing sth. for your well being too.

I already have a CS degree, but never read this book. Is it worth reading this book as a professional programmer, or is it just a meme for students?

How is it fun? Serious question.

Word in here is that it is like studying latin. Pretty cool and virtuous but somewhat dated.

thats where i missed out
i end up programming with fallacies or misunderstandings that would be blown away, would have been blown away in the 'workplace'.

it's already been stated here that this book is well out of date

Anyone got the texinfo or whatever so I can read this in emacs?

yes. It teaches you how to make a compiler, interpreter, and teaches you several programming paradigms you probably aren't very familiar with (logical constraint systems, non-deterministic computing, etc.)

bullshit. It doesn't teach you "react" but the material is hardly out of date.

Can you present any examples of out of date material?