Wow. I took 6.001 as an undergrad at MIT. It changed my view of software forever. Years later, I now spend most of my time training programmers at hi-tech co

Wow. I took 6.001 as an undergrad at MIT. It changed my view of software forever. Years later, I now spend most of my time training programmers at hi-tech companies in Python. The ideas that I got from 6.001 are pervasive in my training, and are fundamental (I think) for programmers to understand if they want to do their jobs well. Given that I teach tons of Python, you might think that I'm happy that they switched to Python as the language of instruction. That's not the case; I think that Lisp offers more options for thinking about programming in different ways. One of the great things about 6.001 was that it didn't try to teach you how to program for a job. It taught you how to think like a programmer, so that you could easily learn any language or technology they threw at you. Oh, well.