On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 09:59:58PM -0500, Matt Emmerton wrote: > Luckily for me, the Math/Computer Science faculty resisted the urge to move > to "commodity" languages for many years and continued to instruct using > Pascal and Modula-3. I still recall the beauty of Modula-3's object model > and cringe when I'm forced to use C++. They only recently (2001-ish) > switched to Java, which was a reasonable decision. > > In the case of the engineering faculty, their move to C# was "helped along" > due to a $1M donation from Microsoft. For shame!
That's a real shame. It's a dead end system for a lot of folks. bill
