While I was waiting for stuff to install on my new machine, I was doing some browsing around the web, and came across an interesting article at a blog called “The Only Winning Move”, titled [Scheme Death Knell?](http:\/\/theonlywinningmove.blogspot.com\/2006\/10\/scheme-death-knell.html). It’s not a bad article at all, but I disagree with its conclusions, and I thought it would be interesting to
\ndiscuss why.
\nThe article was brought on by *another* blog post, this one at [Lambda the Ultimate](http:\/\/lambda-the-ultimate.org\/) suggesting that someone translate Douglas Hofstadter’s columns introducing Scheme to replace the Scheme with Haskell.
\nJosh over at TOWM was slightly irritated by this idea, and concludes that the only reason
\nwhy people are suggesting that is because scheme is getting too old to be cool and trendy,
\nand so they want to switch to something newer.
\nI disagree.
\nHaskell is a *very* different language from Scheme, and I think that there are some genuinely good
\nreasons for teaching Haskell instead of Scheme. I *also* think there are some genuinely good reasons for using Scheme instead of Haskell. It’s not really clear to me which is better, but it’s worth contrasting the two to help understand the tradeoff.<\/p>\n
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