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Re:Easy J (2002) [pdf] by saryant on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @08:51PM (#9768875)
Trinity University in San Antonio. The founder of the CS department was a big fan of J and had been there since the 60's so no one really wanted to tell him to stop. J was only used in the Intro FP course. He retired the same year I graduated (2012) and AFAIK the course is now taught in a combination of Scheme, Haskell and ML.

The intro sequence for majors also includes Scala so students there get a pretty good basis in FP.

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Re:Easy J (2002) [pdf] by patricklynch on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @10:34PM (#9769224)
The most recent version of the course - http://www.cs.trinity.edu/About/The_Courses/cs2322/

They'll probably rewrite the CS department site eventually, but until then, it's a repository of all the information about J you can handle.

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Re:Easy J (2002) [pdf] by saryant on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @11:49PM (#9769427)
Ironically, the reason the CS site hasn't been updated is because it's implemented in J.

So naturally no one is willing to touch it.

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