If the interpreters in SICP is the best we admit–keeping in mind that we've 80 years to pick and prod examples from–then it only reinforces the original premise.
Lisp is esoteric and irrelevant enough that SICP rewrote their concepts in JavaScript!
I wonder what the next language is in store. In either case, viewership has dwindled dramatically.
Most programmers do not read SICP.
Most do not care.
I do not see any swath of viewers lining up.
Meanwhile any art college swoon time and again over works that last centuries.
Perhaps because such works are closer to the essence of things?
I find it dull either way.
Is that the best you can summon, textboard.org?
Have the RUINS finally settled in your psyche?
Can we put to bed the absurd comparison of programming and art and their place in the world?
One may certainly admire the buzzy traps now infecting minds near you, X and friends–but perhaps its too much to bear that these buzzy traps are written in things such as SCALA. Such as PYTHON.
And they'll deprecate too.
Carry on~!