If Scheme is so good why MIT drops it?

[Andrew Reilly]

On Sun, 26 Jul 2009 09:31:06 -0400, Raffael Cavallaro wrote:

> On 2009-07-26 09:16:39 -0400, aahz at pythoncraft.com (Aahz) said:
> 
>> There are plenty of expert C++
>> programmers who switched to Python;
> 
> "plenty" is an absolute term, not a relative term. I sincerely doubt
> that the majority of python users were formerly *expert* C++
> programmers.
> 
>> your thesis only applies to the
>> legions of people who found it difficult to learn C++ in the first
>> place.
> 
> No, my thesis applies to the overwhelming majority of programmers who
> found it more difficult to *master* (i.e., not merely use) C++ as
> opposed to mastering python. BTW, this is a *complement* not a dis;
> python is a better language than C++ precisely because it is more
> sensibly and elegantly designed than C++ and therefore easier to master.

Isn't it widely accepted that the number of people who have mastered C++ 
is about five?  All of the rest of us just struggle...

[I know enough of C++ to avoid it whenever I can, and to not use it for 
my own projects.  I'm happy with a mix of C, python and lisp(or scheme).]

-- 
Andrew