Christopher Lemmer Webber writes: > Gerald Sussman explained Python's success, and the reason for the switch > from Scheme and SICP to a Python based curriculum, as being because > Python had for whatever reason libraries that allowed students to be > able to lego together examples very quickly. I've made the case that > Racket is the Python of lisps... even if we aren't continuing to have a > lispy syntax by default, we should realize that this is a strength we > don't want to lose. If there's a syntax gulf between the restricted > student languages and the "main" language, we'll diminish that value > we're providing to newcomers.
More on that: https://cemerick.com/2009/03/24/why-mit-now-uses-python-instead-of-scheme-for-its-undergraduate-cs-program/ Though I also saw him explain this in a talk, I forget which one, maybe it was: https://vimeo.com/151465912 ... but I don't have time to review again. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/87y2zmwf6v.fsf%40dustycloud.org.
