On Thursday, February 18, 2016 at 9:22:10 PM UTC+5:30, Random832 wrote: > 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.
Factually incorrect. Scheme is as multi-paradigm as you can get -- SICP spends considerable time building OO systems, machine architectures etc Culturally is another matter -- scheme tends to draw FP aficionados as python seems to draw OO ones. The languages do not mandate this > Is there a new "teaching-purpose language"? No And that's the deterioration in the programming edu-world -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
