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My CS degree course used SML as the first language to teach everyone in the first semester. Put everyone on the same level, as it was unlikely people would have prior experience. Also made it easy to teach things like recursion.

Really enjoyed it.

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Ha, same here! It really helped my imposter syndrome, as I overheard a couple of guys talking about the ARM assembly they were doing on their Archimedes on the first day…and I hadn't written anything fancier than QuickBASIC at the time…

Was actually lucky enough to be taught by the co-inventor of the ARM cpu. Furber is awesome.

For my sins, I didn't actually realise how great that was until quite a bit afterwards! ;)

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