XPost: alt.folklore.computers
From: Peter@Iron-Spring.com

On 1/7/26 15:03, rbowman wrote:
>
> Colleges don't always make great choices and do their students a
> disservice. At one time University of Montana used Modula-2, another Wirth
> production. Later they chose Java after being offered financial incentives
> by Sun. (I think it was before Oracle).  Arguably a better choice although
> it didn't do much when we were looking for C/C++ programmers.
>
>

The program language landscape changes so rapidly that whatever language
you learn today will probably be niche in a few years. FORTRAN and COBOL
are still around, but I don't thinks anyone from the 70s would recognize
them. I was there and I used both at the time.

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