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Re:Python is now the most popular introductory language at t... by seanmcdirmid on Monday July 07, 2014 @05:19PM (#8001494)
Is your name Bob Harper? :)

Functional still isn't that popular, in spite of a few vocal supporters. Even MIT went from scheme to Python for their sicp training.

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Re:Python is now the most popular introductory language at t... by fjh on Monday July 07, 2014 @05:46PM (#8001679)
Many of the better European universities teach FP languages in their introductory courses. Off the top of my head, Oxford and Edinburgh use Haskell and Cambridge teaches Ocaml.
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Re:Python is now the most popular introductory language at t... by seanmcdirmid on Monday July 07, 2014 @06:03PM (#8001795)
Doesn't Wadler teach at Edinburgh like Harper teaches at CMU? I'm sure many French schools are into OCaml also.

European computer science has traditionally been more theoretical than American computer science, but even in Europe you'll find that a lot of 101 courses teach in Python.

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Re:Python is now the most popular introductory language at t... by lmm on Monday July 07, 2014 @06:28PM (#8001963)
Cambridge teaches SML, not OCaml, unless it's changed in the last couple of years.
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Re:Python is now the most popular introductory language at t... by pjmlp on Monday July 07, 2014 @05:52PM (#8001726)
FCT UNL in Portugal used to have Camllight, Prolog, logic programming and lambda calculus, when I did my degree in the mid 90's.

Other Portuguese top level universities offered similar choices.

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