I agree with a lot of what you say, and I'm not qualified to comment on some of the the other things you say. My point was that if you were to teach people new

I agree with a lot of what you say, and I'm not qualified to comment on some of the the other things you say. My point was that if you were to teach people new to programming just one language then Python might be a good choice because it supports many paradigms. I agree there are languages that are much more conducive to learning functional programming than Python.