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Because students are idiots. I know. I am one. Students don't know enough to know which languages are worth it. They've likely only heard about the LFMs, not t

Because students are idiots. I know. I am one. Students don't know enough to know which languages are worth it. They've likely only heard about the LFMs, not the LFSPs.

dfranke 19y ago
Neither do the professors. As an undergrad I did as many assignments in Lisp as I was allowed to, but I found that to all but two professors (one specialized in AI, the other in PL), Lisp was just "that weird 70's language with all the parens".
- acgourley 19y ago
  I don't think thats the case everywhere though.
  - dfranke 19y ago
    Maybe at MIT and its ilk. But this was at the University of Florida, which, while not in the same league, is by no means a backwater.