Here is an example of a programmer who was able to produce a much more efficient and reliable C program by applying principles he learned in a Scheme course: h

Here is an example of a programmer who was able to produce a much more efficient and reliable C program by applying principles he learned in a Scheme course: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~jsobel/c455-c511.updated.txt http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~jsobel/c455-c511.updated.txt Now, this may not be exactly what you're looking for, in that the C code he ended up with is not what you would call idiomatic C, so whether it made him a better C programmer per se is debatable. But doubtlessly few of his classmates were writing idiomatic C either, and his program's performance and reliability would not have been possible if he hadn't worked through the problem in Scheme first. (Edit: The closing paragraph, in particular, illustrates the broadly applicable "profound enlightenment experience" that Eric Raymond describes.)