The Snowtide Blog » Blog Archive » Why MIT now uses python instead of scheme for its undergraduate CS programThis week, I find myself lucky enough to be at the International Lisp Conference at MIT in Cambridge, MA. I won’t get into why I’m here right now, for those of you who might be surprised. The purpose of this post is simply to paraphrase what Gerald Jay Sussman, one of the original creators of Scheme, said yesterday in an a brief impromptu talk about why the computer science department at MIT had
