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I don't really approve of this view. CS students are going to be programming in current-gen languages like Java, Python, C/C++ and JS in industry anyway (C is perhaps last-gen...). I think academia should lie a couple steps ahead and introduce students to stuff that will help them advance the industry. Next-gen and maybe experimental/academic languages and tools. Teaching students current industry languages/tools is good for the individual student but bad for the industry as a whole because it causes stagnation. Universities are big enough that they ought to be able to rise above this tragedy of the commons and do something for the greater good rather than think narrowly of the individual student.


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