Well, I was introduced to Scheme at DePaul University in Chicago, in one
of my programming theory courses. I fell in love with it right away.
I had learned Logo after purchasing an Amstrad PCW/8256 word-processor and
CP/M machine. I enjoyed Logo, because it allowed me to learn recursion
while working in an interactive environment. I'm trying to get back to
studying it.
Many universities use Lisp, but I think some are starting to introduce Scheme.
Even from the Lisp perspective, it was my experience with Logo ("supposedly"
a child's language) that helped me understand Lisp and Scheme. As a computer
science major, now studying at Carnegie Mellon University, I can say that
studying Logo was a much better introduction to recursion, and logic
programming than either Pascal or Basic.
I despise Lisp because it has too many constructs, and it's no fun. (No
graphics!) But Scheme is nice, because it forces you to write many of
your programs yourself, instead of picking some complex Lisp primitive.
Well two things: (1) I say introduce Logo, and emphasize that it's NOT a toy language (I *have* studied both Basic and Pascal) and (2) yes, there are actually programmers who like Logo.
