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> And you can explain those to 6 yr old child.

The most popular programming language for teaching children is Logo, a FUNCTIONAL programming language!



I can't comment on this since I've never seen Logo in the wild. I know people who did and they never learned how to program.


Here's Logo in the wild:

   http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/
It's used to do all sorts of interesting things, including real economic modeling. I.e., I've seen it used by real economists.

When I first saw NetLogo being used by an economist to demonstrate an economic model, I thought it strange that the NetLogo people had re-used the name "Logo", a kid's programming language, for something that is a serious tool used by professional researchers. It took me a while to figure out that it is the same Logo! And those kids, I guess, grew up, and decided to do something real with it.

R is also a functional programming language used to do very real work.




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