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>>>> Specific, formal survey question (T/F style): “Please Indicate if you like and are comfortable with each of the following languages:”

Java: 93% C/C++: 74% Python: 38% JavaScript: 21% Racket: 7%

This is absolutely hilarious. Students are comfortable with C/C++ and Java the most. I guess they haven't seen segmentation faults and null pointer exceptions enough in production ruining businesses yet.

It is kind of funny how almost all of my peers who studied CS ended up wanting to work on ML languages (F#, OCaml, Haskell, etc.) after spending 10+ years with Java, C, C++ or C#. At the time they were learning Prolog and SML they did not like it much. This survey should be done after some time spent on deploying production ready applications for living and see how it will change.