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If it were up to me to design curricula for CS, I'd do the entire thing in Ada, with the exceptions of "Data-Structures & Algorithms" being in Lisp and "Machine
by OneWingedShark 7y ago
If it were up to me to design curricula for CS, I'd do the entire thing in Ada, with the exceptions of "Data-Structures & Algorithms" being in Lisp and "Machine Architecture" in Forth — both of these classes would have a "Compilers & Interpreters" prerequisite where they would be provided the specification-files for Forth and Lisp interpreters/compilers which the students would implement, and that is what they would use in the aforementioned classes — not only would having the curriculum in these less-popular languages help emphasize that the important part is the underlying-theory (rather than hyped-up language-of-the-month), but making its prerequisites actually matter and introducing an element of software-maintenance would do a lot to produce good graduates.