I hate python. It's an awful language and should be burned with fire. And yet its my go-to language when I just need to handle some small problem. It's so bad,

I hate python. It's an awful language and should be burned with fire. And yet its my go-to language when I just need to handle some small problem. It's so bad, and I use it anyway because it gets the job done. I never use C++ any more. (well, I used C once last year to create a brute force DNA search algorithm that was 30x faster than our previous implementation, but that kinda proves my point). fuck, i learned to program in BASIC. I was gonna say "maybe Node", but there are a lot of python libraries that benefit academics. But it sounds like the course we're talking about here is for actual CS majors, in which case, UCLA, are you fucking mental? Python? I think the issue here, though, is that C++ is fucking garbage now. It's utterly horrible to use, bloated in all the wrong places while utterly non-existent in places that would make day-to-day use of the language viable. Last year I used C (not C++) to get the job done. You'd have to be insane to build a large scale product in C++, and in the places you really need performance, C or assembly is better. I think UCLA is correct to drop C++. But teach C instead, not python.