Why python???

[David Eppstein]

In article <mbx6b.1996$Yt.953 at newsread4.news.pas.earthlink.net>,
 Johann Hibschman <jhibschman at yahoo.com> wrote:

> >     I think many people spend time on Java and university uses
> >     Java because Sun Microsystem spends much money to promote and
> >     develop the Java language.
> 
> Actually, in my experience, students will complain endlessly if they 
> have to use a language that they don't think will immediately get them a 
> job.  So, usage of C, C++, and Java is probably student-driven, not 
> faculty-driven.

I don't remember any discussion of student fears about relevance the 
last few times the issue of which language to use came up at faculty 
meetings.  Employability of our graduates, yes, but student bitching, no.

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David Eppstein                      http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/
Univ. of California, Irvine, School of Information & Computer Science