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It's just a business thing. Some large local companies come and talk to the university and say that they need a bunch of CS grads to fit into their business. Th
by RyanZAG 13y ago
It's just a business thing. Some large local companies come and talk to the university and say that they need a bunch of CS grads to fit into their business. The HR drone says they need to know Java to be able to integrate into the company quickly. The lecturers get upset. The finance department gets promised a donation, the marketing department gets promised easy job searching for CS students. The ivory tower crumbles a bit and the lecturers teach Java.
- danielweber 13y agoThat might (might) explain a tiny college, but it's not a reasonable explanation for universities with huge endowments to switch from Haskell to Java.
- RyanZAG 13y agoYet they swapped - which is either explained by some love for java (unlikely) or that "more money is more good" even with a huge endowment.
- yongjik 13y agoWell yes it is easily explained by some love for java, why would that be so unlikely? Computer Science is a diverse field, and not every CS professor considers mutable global variable an evil to be purged. (In fact, the majority of CS professors can't be bothered to think about such matter. They're busy tuning their neural networks, photorealistic simulation of snowflakes, improvements to TCP or whatever their particular research interest is. The answer to "Java or Haskell?" for them is "whatever that suits my need.")
- codygman 13y agoBusinesses are essentially turning all universities into vocational schools.