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Universities stopped teaching it likely for market demand reasons. C/C++ had larger market share. They switched to Java around the time big Enterprise switched
by WorldMaker 4y ago
Universities stopped teaching it likely for market demand reasons. C/C++ had larger market share. They switched to Java around the time big Enterprise switched to Java. Knowing the sorts of professors teaching intro classes, I'm not sure "cool" would have anything to do with such choices. (I kid, mostly.)
- Rochus 4y ago> Universities stopped teaching it likely for market demand reasons. They usually don't do that. Why else would Lisp or Scheme lasted as a teaching language in the US for that long, or Modula-2 and Oberon at ETH Zurich, or even Simula 67 in Scandinavia.
- WorldMaker 4y agoI don't think it is an "either/or" here. I suggested market demands as a factor, not as the sole exclusive answer. Though I think some universities are more susceptible to market demands than others (those with big emphasis on career placement programs or cooperative education internship programs, for instance). Also, there's a lot of peer pressure between universities and from some points of view many parts of that can also be considered market demands though not the market you thought I meant (who is writing and selling the textbooks and other teaching materials? how expensive for lab computers and students are compilers/tools/IDEs? how many other professors at the school know the language for later classes? how easy is it to hire professors that can teach or accept assignments in the language?).
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