Python has surpassed Java as the top language used to introduce U.S.
students to programming and computer science, according to a recent
survey posted by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
...
Also seemingly ebbing in influence are functional programming
languages based on Scheme, which have long held sway at a small but
ardent number of computer science departments. Schools such as the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of California,
Berkeley, however, have phased out Scheme in favor of Python.


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