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Re:No CS Degree – Interviews with self-taught developers by xmprt on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @01:35PM (#20508561)
I find it hard to believe a beginner with no theoretical CS background would pick up a functional language first. So the question still stands.
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Re:No CS Degree – Interviews with self-taught developers by zshrdlu on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @02:57PM (#20509224)
How strange. Why would you find it hard to believe?

It is one of several programming paradigms, after all. Am I missing something?

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Re:No CS Degree – Interviews with self-taught developers by pmarreck on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @07:21PM (#20511089)
The "advanced intro CS" class at Cornell (CS 212, at least at the time) used Scheme.

Maybe I should become a high school CS teacher, because I would not curse anyone with a procedural language.

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