[racket] Python creep

On 2014-06-26, 1:29 AM, users-request at racket-lang.org wrote:
> I heard Cornell and Harvard use OCaml, of all things. . . .

Cornell appears to use Python and MATLAB in their first courses; I don't 
see OCaml until third year. Harvard uses OCaml in a second course; C, 
PHP, Javascript in a first.  Even CMU uses OCaml in a second or third 
course, after Python and a safe version of C.

We use Racket by choice in our first courses at Waterloo, and I use 
Haskell as well in my advanced version, but I wouldn't be unhappy if I 
had to use OCaml (though the students might be more unhappy). And if I 
were forced to use an imperative language, I would choose Python, 
probably (though I'd probably just stop teaching the first course). --PR