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One point of learning these is to learn the ability to learn new languages on your own.

I would have a semester teaching several "toy" languages in different paradigms: perhaps some kind of lisp, some kind of prolog, and some procedural language, followed by a second semester where students choose the language they want to learn, and they learn it by themselves.




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