Posted on 16 July 2023.

What happens when students learn a second programming language after
having gotten comfortable with one? This was a question of some
interest in the 1980s and 1990s, but interest in it diminished. Recent
work by Ethel Tshukudu and her collaborators have revived interest in
this question.

Unfortunately, none of this work has really considered the role of
functional programming. This is especially worth considering in the
framework that Tshukudu’