Python is now the most popular introductory language at top U.S. universities

Re:Python is now the most popular introductory language at t... by baddox on Monday July 07, 2014 @11:49PM (#8002920)

Or Emacs Lisp, if you don't have a specific project in mind and/or aren't already heavily invested in a text editor. As a programming language in and of itself, it's not a greap lisp, but it's a great practical way to learn lisp while you're customizing your text editor.

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Re:Python is now the most popular introductory language at t... by eru on Tuesday July 08, 2014 @01:11AM (#8003087)

The only thing going for Emacs Lisp is its killer application named Emacs.

As a compromise, you might want to start people on edwin (https://www.gnu.org/software/mit-scheme/documentation/mit-sc...) instead, if you want to teach them programming. But that's probably even less useful in practice.

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