One of my favorite things about heaving to learn Scheme in my intro CS course was that it put most students on an even footing with regards to already (not) kno

One of my favorite things about heaving to learn Scheme in my intro CS course was that it put most students on an even footing with regards to already (not) knowing the language. It's awesome to see Dijkstra alluding to that, "it drives home the message there is more to programming than they thought." I'm having a ball learning Clojure now, and it would be much much harder if I'd never used Scheme. (I've done some functional programming in C++ and Ruby, but I wouldn't have done that if I hadn't done it in Scheme earlier.)