Funny story: I took Scheme around 1995 for my first college programming class at UIUC, and nobody told me that we could split our code up into separate lines of

Funny story: I took Scheme around 1995 for my first college programming class at UIUC, and nobody told me that we could split our code up into separate lines of execution. So I turned in all of my assignments for the semester as a multi-page function composed of higher-order methods executed in one shot. My teacher must have stared at some of them dumfounded, because they all worked. Although remembering back, I don't think I was the only student doing that! In the end, it helped me see that all programming is basically a spreadsheet and analogous to the STDIN/STDOUT stream processing of Unix executables. All of the stuff we think of as programming, like objects and classes, is basically hand waving to make problems/solutions supposedly fit in the human mind.