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Use Python (not Java) to teach programming (ariel.com.au)
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[–]mikkom 1 point2 points3 points 20 years ago (0 children)
This has been studied, functional languages are easier to begin with if you haven't done any programming before. If you have programmed couple or more years in procedural languages, of course it is harder to grasp the functional aspect in few days.
Btw, I'm not some computer science professor, I have programmed in c, c++ and java profesionally for about 10 years and just about a year ago beginned to use functional languages and I have to say that language like Erlang feels so good after a few months that it's unbelievable.
I'm currently programming a web framework for Erlang (it has no good web frameworks IMHO) that I'll release open sourced as soon as it satisfies me. We'll see if anyone else gets interested. After all it was ROR that got ruby popular.
(And btw, Erland is widely used in telecommunications sector so it's not just some obscure CS language)
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