Why argue with the MIT folks? Because even MIT changed its intro programming class's language from Scheme to Python. That said, I would still have liked to lea

Why argue with the MIT folks? Because even MIT changed its intro programming class's language from Scheme to Python. That said, I would still have liked to learn Scheme or a Lisp as a first language. It's a tiny language at its foundations and allows you to express many different computer science concepts with little effort. Also, it's much, much easier to write a Scheme interpreter in Scheme than a Python interpreter in Python.