A lot of places do teach intro CS in javascript because it solves the environment problem very nicely. Everybody has a web browser and so everybody has a javascript execution enviornment.
I don't see how this is so terrible. Few of the actually hard problems in either software engineering or computer science actually depend deeply on the programming language one uses. FP isn't somehow morally superior to other kinds of programming. Several of the engineers I respect most on this planet started programming Perl. They didn't die.
I don't see how this is so terrible. Few of the actually hard problems in either software engineering or computer science actually depend deeply on the programming language one uses. FP isn't somehow morally superior to other kinds of programming. Several of the engineers I respect most on this planet started programming Perl. They didn't die.