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Re:Is Haskell the right language for teaching functional pro... by lispm on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @03:26PM (#15494057)
> I'm not familiar enough with Scheme or Clojure to tell whether they are too complex for an introductory course.

Simple Scheme has been used for decades for introductory courses, both in schools and university.

An even simpler Lisp called Logo has been used with early programming education for kids.

Lots of educational material based on Scheme or Logo exists.

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