[craigsmansion]

> Save whatever functional nonsense you want to teach for “Obscure Languages 401” class.

Do you also talk to your students like that when, say, one of them mentions an interest in different languages or mentions anything that doesn't agree with your "mindset"?

> using languages that they can actually do stuff with

Didn't you just state: "The fundamentals of programming exist in all languages." ?

I was only commenting on your "minimal friction" that scheme naturally provides and how elegantly fundamentals can be demonstrated by it (right up to and including meta-circular evaluators).