I read The Little Schemer, twice! It's a wonderful fun book that I recommend to anyone.

When I'm going through the book and playing around with Scheme I "get" recursion. Then I put the book down and go back to "real" programming and somehow this just gets lost.

Maybe it's just a matter of more practice, but it's never come naturally to me.

Dijkstra famously wrote that "it is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."

I started with BASIC. Maybe Dijkstra was right.