what to study next?

dear programmers:

would it be harmful or dumb to learn functional programming before any other paradigm, such as imperative, or object-oriented? i took one course in college intro c++ and want to move forward now, so i'm thinking either object-oriented and moving to data structures (berkeley cs dept available free on their site), or functional programming w scala (coursera) next.

thoughts?

>>6

NO!

SICP does not teach you Lisp. It teaches you Scheme. Scheme is not Lisp.

He is not ready yet for Lisp. He is not ready yet to pass the first trial of the knights of the lambda calculus.

Your advice that he learn Python is malicious and evil. I banish thee back to /g/