And I thought that the "S" in CS stood for science... a science degree isn't about training for jobs, it is about learning and understanding the fundamentals o

And I thought that the "S" in CS stood for science... a science degree isn't about training for jobs, it is about learning and understanding the fundamentals of a field. In that sense the Wirth languages are a great base for understanding static compiled and typed languages (the other importand thing would be learning about Lisp...). Having properly understood the fundamentals, languages like Java and C can be picked up rather quickly.