Re:Choosing a Programming Language
by doktrin on Friday April 05, 2013 @12:52AM
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The case could be made that universities teaching Java are already catering too much to industry. For my part, I would vastly prefer working with a lisp, ML or other esoteric language while in school. There's no shortage of time afterwards to work with more pragmatic languages & frameworks.
edit : not meant to imply that Lisp or Ocaml are not "pragmatic", just that the likelihood of working with them as a professional developer are substantially lower than Java / C# or Ruby / Python.
edit : not meant to imply that Lisp or Ocaml are not "pragmatic", just that the likelihood of working with them as a professional developer are substantially lower than Java / C# or Ruby / Python.