well. of course knowing oop is useful. but why the modula flavor and not the smalltalk flavor? vtables cannot be used with message-passing object orientation.

well. of course knowing oop is useful. but why the modula flavor and not the smalltalk flavor? vtables cannot be used with message-passing object orientation. shouldn't students learn lambda-calculus? shouldn't you teach a functional programming language then? or even a logic programming language? "the real-world software stack" is not the most important thing in the world.