[runT1ME]

The book Functional Programming in Scala is widely regarded as one of the best books on functional programming in any language. It has very little to do with the Scala language and everything to do with how you would write purely functional programs for the real world (file systems, concurrency, etc).

[StreamBright]

Sadly you did not reflect to anything I wrote. I bet the Scala book is pretty good, however I would still learn programming from SICP if I just wanted to learn how to write purely functional programs. This is just a matter of taste.