TLDR: Perhaps MIT should reinstate Scheme and 6.001, and get rid of Python and the new C1. Somehow I feel that MIT is risking creating a new generation of idiot

TLDR: Perhaps MIT should reinstate Scheme and 6.001, and get rid of Python and the new C1. Somehow I feel that MIT is risking creating a new generation of idiots by getting rid of Scheme and SICP from their curriculum just for the ostensible reason that the recursive style of programming does not reflect the way that programming is actually conducted in industry. Students do not learn programming just to program; learning programming also has important ramifications for the structural thought processes underlying other technical fields, even those that do not seem superficially related (such as patent translation), and it seems that watering down a core programming course for such ostensible reasons undermines the crucial patterns of thinking which are cross-applicable to such other technical fields as well. I wonder if Richard Stallman would have invented recursive copyleft law if he had never programmed in a lisp/scheme.