procedural, functional, *al programming

[Marc Lijour]

> ICONs actually ran a flavour of UNIX at least that's what the admin told
> me when I was in high school.  Turing is a far better language to start
> off with than BASIC.  At least Turing has a formal concept of a pointer
>   and is procedural.

I heard a discussion about introducing functional programming languages early 
in the education. What are your opinions about that?
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