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He says that "if American Universities are going to keep up, they need to switch back to ... using C in the classroom." Unfortunately, he doesn't understand th
by jcromartie 18y ago
He says that "if American Universities are going to keep up, they need to switch back to ... using C in the classroom."
Unfortunately, he doesn't understand the goals of most American schools. The goal is not to give the students a well-rounded education to serve as a foundation of lifelong achievement. The goal is to get paid.
A lot of schools used C because it was popular, and because the industry would support a system that produced C programmers. Now Java is popular and the industry supports schools that produce Java programmers.
If Haskell becomes the next big trend in enterprise development, then kids will start getting good CS educations again.
- rit 18y agoExactly. At some point [I'm assuming based on legend and claims it once was] the american "higher" education system became a business, rather than a true academic institution. The purpose has nothing to do with giving students a solid education: it has entirely to do with getting their money, and giving them a good "social" experience that convinces them to convince friends, family and offspring to go to the school. In some cases, I suspect there is genuine "let's use Java because it's heavily used in industry." But in most cases, it's "Let's use Java because Java is EASY, and our students don't want to take hard classes with things like pointer math and C".