I suspect this might be path dependency / "we're just teaching these courses the way we always have." In the US there has been a push towards teaching using mo

I suspect this might be path dependency / "we're just teaching these courses the way we always have." In the US there has been a push towards teaching using modern, practical languages. It was previously more common for universities to "teach the principles." Figuring out how to apply that to the industrial zeitgeist was on the student. In 2002, the uni I went to prided itself on being allied with industry: they introduced programming with Java. The uni down the road introduced students to Gofer (Haskell circa 1992), then Pascal.