>>I was just reading an editorial from the "Angry Programmer" where he states that he thinks it's wrong that many universities have slimmed down their IT offering to only include Java as the tool.
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>I'm curious where that's true. My son's majoring in Computer Science and has already been introduced to 3 or 4 languages. Java was first, but know he's worked with Scheme, Haskell (a functional language for doing things related to Music), and I think a couple of others.
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>What I do see is Java being used in the intro/service courses. My older son took a first programming course and learned Java.
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The last part makes sense to me. It used to be C (then C++) when there were more C/C++ jobs than anything else. Now (according to my understanding) Java is the most desired skill in the market.

PS -- That's great to hear that Eddie Haskell has a language named after him ;-)