On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 1:43 AM, Rein Henrichs <rein.henrichs@gmail.com> wrote:

Mr. McIlroy,

FWIW I would love to read more about that McCarthy talk. It
sounds like an amazing experience.

No I was not there (in more than one sense!) when that talk happened

About the power of scheme being under-appreciated (even by the authors of SICP!)

http://blog.languager.org/2013/08/applying-si-on-sicp.html