SICP review by Peter Norvig (2000)

"Most reviews give a bell-shaped curve of star ratings;"<p>Not true now [1] and not true back then [2].<p>[1] <a href="http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1134743" rel="nofollow">http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1134743</a> [2] <a href="http://econpapers.repec.org/paper/eclstabus/1670r.htm" rel="nofollow">http://econpapers.repec.org/paper/eclstabus/1670r.htm</a> (Fig. 1)

Also see pg's review, referenced but not linked from Norvig's: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/review/R3G05B1TQ5XGZP/ref=cm_cr_pr_perm?ie=UTF8&#38;ASIN=0262011530&#38;nodeID=&#38;tag=&#38;linkCode=" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/review/R3G05B1TQ5XGZP/ref=cm_cr_pr_per...</a>

<a href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html" rel="nofollow">http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html</a>

I don't understand how someone could give it anything but 5 stars.

It's sitting open on the desk next to me. I have loved seeing SICP-related links show up on HN over the past 6 months that I've been reading it.

I loved SICP. That review definitely made me want to read TAoCP.

Sounds like a good description of "sensing" vs "intuition" in the Myers-Briggs personality type indicator.<p><a href="http://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/mbti-basics/sensing-or-intuition.asp" rel="nofollow">http://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/mbti-bas...</a><p>"Sensing" types will definitely hate this book, as they hate all high-level conceptual talks and writings.