No one should have a computer science degree and not know multiple languages and multiple programming paradigms. Prolog, lisp or scheme, C, JavaScript, Haskell.

No one should have a computer science degree and not know multiple languages and multiple programming paradigms. Prolog, lisp or scheme, C, JavaScript, Haskell. The long term task of the professional software developer is to learn new stuff. Helps if your awareness of the cool things you could learn is already broad. I cannot explain how wrong it is to graduate with Java only and think that is sufficient. To be honest, I would also want people to understand the halting problem and Godel’s incompleteness theorem’s proof, as understanding the equivalence of apparent different systems that can handle the integers is very fundamental. And these days some knowledge of distributed theory is also good, the Lamport time clocks paper and so on. Unless the student is ambitious and doesn’t really like programming and just wants to program for a few years and then get into management or something like that (product? bizdev? I’d that a thing?) they will go thru many iterations of interesting new technologies. The brain that enjoys learning mind-bending shit will have a broader conceptual base and a better chance to see how lisp macro type things can help with k8s configs. Or while lazy argument evaluation might not be in your language, having it in your tool box for message processing design or you know evaluation of user preference rule sets against an event might be helpful.