Over here at Rensselaer we are actually thinking about teching CompSci I in Scheme because it is very simple (so they say), and a lot of academic types think functional programming is the way of the future. I just spent a whole semester writing other interpreted languages using Scheme and while I do think functional languages are fun, they don't seem to be "all there" yet. I heard MIT doesn't even teach C/C++ and relies purely on languages like Scheme. Any comments? Anybody hate/love scheme?
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Over here at Rensselaer we are actually thinking about teching CompSci I in Scheme because it is very simple (so they say), and a lot of academic types think functional programming is the way of the future. I just spent a whole semester writing other interpreted languages using Scheme and while I do think functional languages are fun, they don't seem to be "all there" yet. I heard MIT doesn't even teach C/C++ and relies purely on languages like Scheme. Any comments? Anybody hate/love scheme?