I believe that Haskell and Erlang are currently very popular in University courses, Lisp is also ever-present as an old favourite. On top of this, Microsoft are happily funding many post-grad courses, on the understanding that research so-funded is somehow related to .Net
So you're looking at graduate employees with a grounding in functional programming, actors, a workable level of category theory, etc. If you then extrapolate this into the best way that such a skillset might be used against our current deployment environments (i.e. Java VM + jetty/tomcat/whatever) then the trend really does seem to be heading in a limited number of directions: Scala/Clojure on the JVM side, and C#/F# for .Net shops. On 9 July 2010 15:49, Wildam Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 16:41, Carl Jokl <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think that when it comes to a point that the major Universities > > start teaching something other than Java as the main teaching language > > it would be a fairly good litmus test that Java was in real decline. > > And what is current status at universities? > BTW: When I went to university they taught languages that nobody was > and is really using (apart from C++). There was no Java taught - but > that was around 1992-1995. ;-) - My children are under 5 so I don't > have any source of what is currently being taught. > -- > Martin Wildam > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- Kevin Wright mail/google talk: [email protected] wave: [email protected] skype: kev.lee.wright twitter: @thecoda -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
