This quote makes my head hurt: > "Instead of teaching some currently fashionable programming language" [...] > "The approach emphasizes the systematic design o

This quote makes my head hurt: > "Instead of teaching some currently fashionable programming language" [...] > "The approach emphasizes the systematic design of programs. Experience shows that it works extremely well as a preparation for a course on object-oriented programming." As someone who gradually transitioned from "object-oriented programming" (or "place-oriented programming in general") with mutable data into largely functional systems with immutable data structures, I find this quote mind-boggling, especially coming from educators. Moving to functional programming and immutable data structures is what allowed me to build and maintain systems at least an order of magnitude larger than before.