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My introduction to programming course in my university was in OCaml. It was all downhill from there when it comes to the programming languages I had to use.

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Which university? Does the course have a public webpage?

Not the original commenter, but my first year course of Introduction of Programming 15 years age was also using OCaml. There were two groups of students, standard one was using Pascal, and the functional one using OCaml. I was studying on Warsaw University and the lecture notes are in Polish: https://mimuw.edu.pl/~kubica/wpf/wpf.pdf

Thanks! 15 years, that's quite a long time ago.

Yup. I really loved all the functional stuff I've learned there from OCaml to SML+Extended ML, to Haskell.

Unfortunately, I haven't had a chance to professionally program functionally since the n. :(

It was all Java and C++. Though I like C++, maybe it's a Stockholm syndrome. ;)

That was exactly the course that I took at the WU :) Fond memories.

Cambridge does this (or did when I was there); https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~lp15/MLbook/ is the book for the course (available online).

It still does according to the undergraduate program page https://www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/courses/computer-s...

Seems its better to start with javascript so you can have the reverse experience.

Then I would probably be writing HN posts claiming that languages with advanced type systems and functional programming are too hard and impractical, and that they are trying to be clever and cool for no reason.

But, partly thanks to that course, I'm able to pick up any paradigm, and my opinion on what's better is informed by knowledge of both things. I'm also able to structure imperative code better than my "imperative only" colleagues.

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