> he'd also introduced us to every bit of syntax we would learn in the course. This doesn't seem like a very meaningful distinction to me. Lisp may not have a

> he'd also introduced us to every bit of syntax we would learn in the course. This doesn't seem like a very meaningful distinction to me. Lisp may not have a lot of syntax, but it still has a comparable number of features to other languages used in intro classes. You have to learn those features as you encounter them regardless of whether they come with new syntax or not, and the new syntax frankly isn't the hard part of that. Rust certainly has more features than Scheme, of course. :)