[jjtheblunt]

I think the impact it has depends on what you're doing at the time, what languages you've seen. For me, I'd done lots of assembly, C, Pascal, and Basic, so it was super fun. 20 years later I re-read parts and remembered the excitement, but, in the intervening years, had used Ruby and Python, and noticed Scheme/Lisp ideas had been imitated more widely, and it felt, in that 2013 context, less invigorating to reread SICP.