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If your alma mater is what I'm thinking of (UT Austin) I can maybe share some insight on the current situation. The introductory courses are all still taught in
by ethanzh 6y ago
If your alma mater is what I'm thinking of (UT Austin) I can maybe share some insight on the current situation. The introductory courses are all still taught in Java and the lower-division systems courses are taught in C. From what I know about the curriculum it is entirely possible for a student to go their entire undergraduate career without expanding from these two languages (maybe they'll need Python for a class or two). This past semester I took our PL course which was taught in Haskell. I thought it was an interesting course and strengthened my base in FP (my high school taught CS courses in Racket where I started my foundation). However this was not a large class and from discussion with peers there is generally little interest in learning "esoteric" languages such as Haskell.