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I know of zero universities that use Scheme or any LISP. Most nowadays that I know of start with Javascript. My old university started with C. It now goes stra
by LandR 7y ago
I know of zero universities that use Scheme or any LISP.
Most nowadays that I know of start with Javascript. My old university started with C. It now goes straight to javascript.
- brlewis 7y agoActually I think you do know of more than zero universities, since you replied to a comment that named Northeastern. A sibling comment to yours named another. Here's another: https://cs.brown.edu/courses/info/csci0170/ https://cs.brown.edu/courses/info/csci0170/
- akavi 7y agoYale started you off with scheme back in 2012. Not sure if they still do, however.
- lispm 7y agoJust close your eyes and when you learn about recursion, closures, serialized data, evaluation, ... in Javascript, then just pretend you are using Lisp with a fancy notation. Even the original developer of Javascript wanted to do some Lisp/Scheme, was hired to do so and ended up with a slightly different language... https://thenewstack.io/brendan-eich-on-creating-javascript-in-10-days-and-what-hed-do-differently-today/ https://thenewstack.io/brendan-eich-on-creating-javascript-i...