Pascal and C are special-purpose languages for manipulating the registers and memory of a von Neumann-style computer.
My belief is that PowerPoint doesn't kill meetings. People kill meetings.
The people who hate SICP are the ones who just want to know how to drive their car on the highway, just like everyone else.
We dont have better algorithms, we just have more data
Using PowerPoint is like having a loaded AK-47 on the table.
All models are wrong, and increasingly you can succeed without them.