On Jul 8, 7:14 pm, nchubrich <nchubr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I disagree. This is a subject of religious debates that I don't want to get > > into in detail, but FWIW this educator thinks that Lisp > is a perfectly > > defensible first language and that Clojure can serve the purpose quite well > > as long as installation and tooling > > doesn't make it unnecessarily difficult to write and run code. > > +1 for all your points here, Lee. Scheme has often used as a first > language, and it works great. It's better to teach people the right > way first, and the right way is Lisp
Oh I have no problem with scheme. Scheme was my introduction to programming, and itself is a teaching language. I also have no problem with *teaching* clojure, with a clear supervised curriculum. My concern is if people are going to self-teach and expect to be able to do work soon, they shouldn't be led to believe that learning clojure and java too all at once is easy. I still believe that python would be more suitable (though *not* jython, the java version of python), and I note that MIT, famous for for SICP scheme course, now teaches python instead of scheme. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
