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I’m not so sure. SICP gives a deep understanding of programming principles like abstraction.

I agree that gluing APIs is essentially what modern programming has become, but it is helpful to have that extra understanding, especially in the long term. We don’t know how programming will look in 2050, but abstraction will remain abstraction, and I wouldn’t bet against Lisp being more popular then than it is now.

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Indeed. APIs do not just appear from the void, someone has to write them for anyone to have an API to glue together.

Somewhere at the bottom, fundamental code is always present.