> I think students should be taught in "professional" languages, but crossover is not my main reason. Rather, it's that professional languages have an enormous

> I think students should be taught in "professional" languages, but crossover is not my main reason. Rather, it's that professional languages have an enormous corpus of examples that students can look up. PHP fits this description, and lots of self-learners get it as their first language. I am not sure we want to go that direction