Thanks! I knew I had read a blog post with this title somewhere, but I couldn't put my finger on it. Here's the related HN post from 6 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1615182
Same here: I was reading and when I read the anecdote about a some basic concept being introduced only around page 216, I thought "hang on, I've read that before..."
And I had the same thought as back then, too: "Concepts, Techniques and Models of Computer Programming" also used this approach, except it's only after a few chapters that they teach you "oh by the way, Oz also supports for and while loops" whereas everything until now used recursion. All my eng school buddies found that off-putting, but I always thought that if you put the book in the hands of a completely newcomer to programmer, they would never even think of it.
(I know SICP predates CTM by decades and may not be considered in the same league, and that Mozart/Oz is rather more obscure that any lisp/scheme ever can be, but I consider it a fairly important book as well, and one of the best textbooks I've ever read: very well structured, well written, very complete, starts shallow but goes very deep and very wiiiiidddeee in terms of knowledge.)
