Americans also mostly don't study programming language theory (PLT) (unless they are lucky enough to attend e.g. Carnegie Mellon). A lot of the focus is on algo

Americans also mostly don't study programming language theory (PLT) (unless they are lucky enough to attend e.g. Carnegie Mellon). A lot of the focus is on algorithms - which is a great shame. The majority of programmers will be consuming/creating APIs and abstractions, not implementing algorithms. PLT would be much more helpful here.