[Baypiggies] M.I.T. to drop Scheme in favor of Python

Stephen McInerney spmcinerney at hotmail.com
Sat May 30 01:37:25 CEST 2009



Can anyone reply to this?

From: spmcinerney at hotmail.com
To: knupp at well.com; baypiggies at python.org
Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 12:38:42 -0700
Subject: Re: [Baypiggies] M.I.T. to drop Scheme in favor of Python








One word in favor of Scheme as a teaching tool for the functional code paradigm
(not as an actual development platform) is that it is nearly impossible to *not*
write functional code. It's a straitjacket.

How would you (automatically) enforce that in Python to teach the programmer?

Is there a lint ruleset for "bad" procedural practices? or Eclipse plugin?

Stephen

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