Well if we're talking about K-8, that's probably true. I don't know about high school. For undergraduate students, you better believe that they'll find out what

Well if we're talking about K-8, that's probably true. I don't know about high school. For undergraduate students, you better believe that they'll find out what languages are "real" and "not real" very fast. Whether they're at all accurate is another matter, but they pick up opinions. Whether it's their cousin at another school or that one kid in the class who's been hacking since he was five or just a grumpy senior, someone will come in and fill their heads with something. I have my own set of (hopefully well-educated) biases I give them, but I don't like having to argue too much with them when we're starting out. A new Pascal would be nice. I loved how much we had to set things up. You start off the entire program by listing out all the variables and types you need! What a fun concept. That would be nice to enforce with my students.