Hi, I am MIT student in CS and I took 6.001 (the new course is called 6.01). When I asked the instructor why we are using some language that has almost no pract

Hi, I am MIT student in CS and I took 6.001 (the new course is called 6.01). When I asked the instructor why we are using some language that has almost no practical use, they told me that the reasons are: - it teaches the concepts of the class well - after it one can learn any programming language very easily. I believe both of these to be true. From my point of view the new 6.01 sacrifises depth for breadth. This is part of much bigger change of the ciriculum in MIT. That's why I hurried to take all nice classes before they get destroyed. P.S. I didn't know python untill 2 weeks ago. But I learned in need very fast - definitely having background in different programming languages helps a lot.