> Next on the list of worst things to happen to programming is Python's popularity as a CSC101 language My school kept track of computer science graduates, and

> Next on the list of worst things to happen to programming is Python's popularity as a CSC101 language My school kept track of computer science graduates, and the numbers dropped sharply after copying MIT's example for their intro course. And predictably it was 4 years after the change. Some might call that "Gatekeeping" (though that's a more recent word in the vernacular), but I think it's more 90% of the jobs were C/C++/Java back then, and a BS degree was meant to get a graduate in a job in the real world. Also students dropping out of the computer science program wasn't a great look when requesting funds for servers and stuff.