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Re:Python is now the most popular introductory language at t... by danieldk on Tuesday July 08, 2014 @03:03AM (#8003328)
The computing courses at my university use Haskell in the introductory programming course - apparently it works rather well as a vehicle for exploring algorithms and data structures.

I think a strict language in the ML family would even be nicer, because students wouldn't have to reason about laziness.

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