Go 1.6 is Released

Re:Go 1.6 is Released by pjmlp on Thursday February 18, 2016 @01:45AM (#11124111)

> For better or worse, CS departments across the US produce Java programmers more than anything else.

That is real a problem of quality of those CS departments.

My humble Portuguese CS department teached me about Pascal, C++, C, Prolog, Caml Light, Smalltalk, Java, Lisp, MIPS and x86 Assembly.

Having a quick look at their current curriculum, now around 25 years later, they seem to still provide a good mix.

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Re:Go 1.6 is Released by autoreleasepool on Thursday February 18, 2016 @08:53AM (#11125693)

I have to admit I'm jealous you had such a diverse exposure to programming paradigms.

I agree it's a problem. I've always found it odd that the AP test is in Java for example. I would imagine pseudo code would be a better choice for a conceptual test.

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Re:Go 1.6 is Released by pjmlp on Thursday February 18, 2016 @09:28AM (#11125918)

And I only listed the official ones.

Those of us, like myself, that opted into the compiler design classes had a quite a few more to play with.

I guess the problem are those universities that tend to be more focused on "languages to get a job" than doing the real work of an university.

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