Too short an article. That particular quote was called out and discussed here when the Khan Academy article was discussed previously. It's a certain mindset th

Too short an article. That particular quote was called out and discussed here when the Khan Academy article was discussed previously. It's a certain mindset that thinks this way. It reminds me of another discussion here where some people and a supporting article (http://geekfeminism.org/2010/08/10/restore-meritocracy-in-cs-with-an-obscure-functional-programming-language/ http://geekfeminism.org/2010/08/10/restore-meritocracy-in-cs...) argued that it is unfair that some students have previous experience programming when they enter a CS program, therefore classes should be done in obscure (and thus pretty useless) languages that no one has heard of, in order to equally handicap everyone.