It would be nice if 10 year olds can be exposed to functional programming. But it's hardly a necessary prerequisite. There are plenty of technologies that peopl

It would be nice if 10 year olds can be exposed to functional programming. But it's hardly a necessary prerequisite. There are plenty of technologies that people adopt later in life and which are hugely successful (SQL/RDBMS is a great example). If you want to expose 10-year olds to functional programming, Logo [1] is a great place to start, and has been for decades. That's where I picked it up (I didn't know it at the time, but looking backwards it's now clear). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_%28programming_language%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_%28programming_language%2...