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> 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
by 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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