SICP: o fim de uma era
What it is
A short Portuguese-language excerpt of Gerald Sussman's 2016 NYC Lisp Meetup talk explaining why MIT replaced the Scheme-based 6.001 (SICP) course with Python courses. The full talk is linked in the description.
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN uses it as the canonical explanation from Sussman himself of why SICP ended at MIT.
- 2 people recommended it
- 2 different months
- 0 strong recommendations
- first 2023, last 2025
What HN commenters said
“Don't miss Sussman's talk linked from the post”
Sussman talk on modern computing's complexity and why SICP ended.
yazzku, 2023-02 · Recommendation · in “Sussman Explains the End of SICP”
“we can't mention SICP without referencing this (relatively recent) video”
Video on why MIT moved intro classes from Scheme to Python.
OhMeadhbh, 2025-04 · Recommendation · in “Why Fennel?”
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Topics: sicp, sussman, scheme, mit 6.001, python
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