On Thu, Feb 18, 2016, at 07:25, Rustom Mody wrote: > My beef is somewhat different: viz that post 70s (Pascal) and 80s > (scheme) > programming pedagogy has deteriorated with general purpose languages > replacing > 'teaching-purpose language' for teaching.
The flaw in this idea is right there in your post. Both languages you named are strongly tied to a single paradigm (procedural for Pascal, and functional for Scheme) which don't match the paradigm that real-world work is done in. Is there a new "teaching-purpose language"? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
