On 2014-06-26, 1:29 AM, [email protected] wrote:
I heard Cornell and Harvard use OCaml, of all things. . . .
Cornell appears to use Python and MATLAB in their first courses; I don't see OCaml until third year. Harvard uses OCaml in a second course; C, PHP, Javascript in a first. Even CMU uses OCaml in a second or third course, after Python and a safe version of C.
We use Racket by choice in our first courses at Waterloo, and I use Haskell as well in my advanced version, but I wouldn't be unhappy if I had to use OCaml (though the students might be more unhappy). And if I were forced to use an imperative language, I would choose Python, probably (though I'd probably just stop teaching the first course). --PR
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