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I think using lisp vs other languages is pretty much completely orthogonal to whether the degree is theoretical or practical.
by School-Cotton 2y ago
I think using lisp vs other languages is pretty much completely
orthogonal to whether the degree is theoretical or practical.
- dartos 2y agoI strongly disagree. Idk if lisp is the perfect language to teach, but the choice in language absolutely flavors a student's understanding of computing, especially early on. I think “lighter” languages with fewer built in abstractions would allow students to better understand the theoretical backing of what they’re doing. Like what’s the difference between and class and a closure? It doesn’t really matter for the practical day to day work, but certainly does to compiler designers and programming language theory folks. You wouldn’t really get a sense for that in Java or python, but you might in a lisp or maybe js.