For many years, MIT taught engineers the Scheme dialect of Lisp as a first language (see: The Wizard Book.) They appear to have moved to Python to get wider access to libraries and infrastructure. I was discussing with a friend recently what would have happened if Clojure had arrived in time. Both sets of lectures are available free online.
On Sunday, 21 February 2016 10:45:44 UTC, Terje Dahl wrote: > > I believe that the simplicity of Clojure's syntax in combination with its > clean functional nature and prefix notation makes it ideal as a "first > language" for anyone who wants to start programming - including, and > perhaps especially kids. > > Is there anything written about this? > Arguments ... experiences ... perhaps even research ...? > -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
