> C++ is more insidious -- because it IS a superset of C, it sucks you in, and (like Pascal) it has been embraced by computer science departments everywhere I'

> C++ is more insidious -- because it IS a superset of C, it sucks you in, and (like Pascal) it has been embraced by computer science departments everywhere I've heard of this, but does it happen? I did my degree back in the '90s at Drexel, I don't recall there being any prescribed language... I did some systems stuff in C, some AI courses in LISP, a concurrency course in Java, some stuff I don't recall in Perl, some math courses used Maple, and there was a bit of shell and some familiarization with the Solaris boxes, etc. I don't think I ever actually took a course on a specific language, you were just supposed to RTFM and figure it out.