[batt4good]

As someone who attended a private engineering school in Boston (although not MIT) I see a move from scheme to python as regressive in almost every way.

Scheme levels the playing field among incoming students, both those who've barely programmed and who've been programming since they were 14. It also provides a special kind of mind bender that challenged me in ways I still use today. Granted I work at a company that employs multiple functional programming languages.

Good engineers in time don't use python because they realize it attracts tech debt and cruft. I love python, and still use it for quick hacks and machine learning things. However, I'll defer to the one and only Bunnie Huang regarding python v other languages [0]"fwiw, Python is a great glue, but a terrible structural material. Do not build skyscrapers out of Python"

[0] https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=5863