Instead of deciding between Python or Lisp for a programming intro course...What about an intro course that uses *BOTH*? Good idea?

[zipher]

On Tuesday, May 12, 2015 at 5:24:34 PM UTC-5, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> zipher <dreamingforward at gmail.com>:
> 
> > That is why you have very high-level languages that allow you to
> > rapidly prototype ideas, test them, and then, depending all the other
> > constraints, move them to lower-level language implementations.
> 
> Finally an argument to tackle. That rapid prototyping role is often
> mentioned as a strong point of high-level languages. However, I can't
> remember personally doing that. Rather, you want to use the right
> programming language for any given role.

I know.  That's because most people have fallen off the path (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?OneTruePath).  You haven't done it because either others have done it for you (NumPy) or you simply aren't perfecting anything that needs to scale; i.e. you don't really need to minimize memory or CPU consumption because you're working with toy problems relative to the power of most hardware these days.

Mark