[jstimpfle]

I've had an introductory Scheme course in a smaller university, and have experience designing data structures, creating parsers & interpreters, and with multi-threading and networking.

I was never one to really dig lisp. I prefer the structure and the groundedness of a statically typed systems language (I mostly do systems work). But I took on reading SICP in the hope of finding something new and interesting, and to level up my skills. However, I got bored by the it. Probably made it through more than half of the book.

It's a bummer because I'm left with the feeling of missing out. Am I not worthy or too obtuse to get what's so great about the book? Or maybe I am in fact not the target audience, having too much practical experience that the book doesn't seem worth my while.

[nyssos]

If you're comfortable writing interpreters you've probably already picked up on most of the "big ideas" SICP is trying to teach. It's a very good introductory book, but it is still just an introduction.