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Re: What is left alive?

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Date	Wed, 22 Mar 2017 20:11:42 -0400
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On 3/22/2017 1:25 PM, Tristan B. Kildaire wrote:
> Java is a great teaching language, I'd say. Python is good too but not
> as good a Java. Python to me is too messy as it tries to be simple but
> keep other features, hence to me it feels unstructured.

All sort of languages are used in teaching including Java and
Python.

If we follow the stereotype (which is far from everyone) then
I would expect:

business - Java and/or C#
science - Python and/or R
theoretical CS - OCAML and/or Haskell
hardware - C

But I suspect that exceptions are the majority.

:-)

Arne

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Re: What is left alive? "Tristan B. Kildaire" <deavmi@disroot.org> - 2017-03-22 19:25 +0200
  Re: What is left alive? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2017-03-22 20:11 -0400

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