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by kaba0 1861 days ago
> I think it is better for introductory students to be able to figure out what they are doing wrong, rather than having a compiler point it out to them.

That’s implying they will find it out, instead of having a finished project that can randomly crash with a slightly different input.

Also, the compiler is basically just a shorter eval loop.

But I agree with you that OOP should only come later (though using objects is inevitable in most languages)