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by tobych 1214 days ago
My CS course at the University of Sussex, UK did this (in 1988) with ML, the functional programming language. Plenty of us had already been coding in C or Pascal before starting at college. None of us had done any functional programming. I loved ML: it seemed all elegant and beautiful and magical.

When I hear people starting their CS degree with C++ or Java, it makes me cringe.