One of my professors is one of the maintainers of Scheme and one of the authors of DrScheme, and he's made us aware of their education efforts. One of the inter

One of my professors is one of the maintainers of Scheme and one of the authors of DrScheme, and he's made us aware of their education efforts. One of the interesting things about those education efforts is that they compare the results of teaching people Scheme to teaching them C++. I certainly would rather learn programming with Scheme than with C++ as well! C++ is a horrible language to teach beginning programming. However, you can talk to me all you want about how easy Scheme is and may be for people new to programming, but that doesn't change the fact that I have a hard time learning it well enough to get things done as productively as I can with other languages and I've genuinely spent time trying. I've also learned plenty of other languages and learn them more thoroughly than most programmers I know, so I certainly am not incompetent. Therefore, I stand by my previous assertions.