> Scheme is more of a blank slate upon which many different paradigms can be taught. reply Also, for a lot of first-time programmers, Scheme and other lispy la

> Scheme is more of a blank slate upon which many different paradigms can be taught. reply Also, for a lot of first-time programmers, Scheme and other lispy languages, can come with heavier cognitive friction. Unlike procedural languages where you can think about what you want to do, break it down into steps, and then make those steps, there is a higher-level (or deeper-level, if you like) of thinking that needs to goes into functional development, where one thing feeds into the next which feeds into the next. If you already have a very strong background in mathematical theory, this might not be so bad (and might make a lot more logical sense), but it is a shift in thinking from how many people do day-to-day tasks, which is more similar to procedural programming.