What do you think about Standard ML as a language for teaching?
I like it because the syntax is clean, it is functional and higher-order, but also has an explicit concept of references (i.e. mutable memory) and using functions with side effects (i.e. printing) is no trouble at all.
I like it because the syntax is clean, it is functional and higher-order, but also has an explicit concept of references (i.e. mutable memory) and using functions with side effects (i.e. printing) is no trouble at all.