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Functional (Score:1)

by koschei (147) <useperl@dellah.org> on 2002.08.22 21:52 (#12102) Homepage Journal

I'd say: go for it.

I've found that many people, including myself, can have trouble grokking functional programming after years of any other sort. If you get Scheme in there before, say, Perl, I would imagine they'd end up a better programmer (being able to grasp all sorts of different languages).

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  by mary.poppins (3530)
  
  The functional features in Perl are the best part! map map grep map map grep map!

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