Re:Functional programming is not popular because it is weird...
by WastingMyTime89 on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @04:41AM
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> And most educators decided on Python because?
Because there was a huge push by the Python designers towards this direction?
They got funds from the DARPA in 1999 for a proposal entitled "Computer Programming for Everybody", the first part of which was " Develop a new computing curriculum suitable for high school and college students".
The Python project did a lot of outreach and marketing specifically targeted at educators to explain why Python was a great teaching language (and did a lot of work to make it so - don't get me wrong). It worked.
Because there was a huge push by the Python designers towards this direction?
They got funds from the DARPA in 1999 for a proposal entitled "Computer Programming for Everybody", the first part of which was " Develop a new computing curriculum suitable for high school and college students".
The Python project did a lot of outreach and marketing specifically targeted at educators to explain why Python was a great teaching language (and did a lot of work to make it so - don't get me wrong). It worked.