[geofft]

OK, so you're saying that in universities that teach linguistics (instead of teaching languages), they do in fact strongly prefer to teach in idealized conlangs like Esperanto and avoid working with irregular real-world languages?

Can you give me an example of such a university curriculum?

[StreamBright]

No, I am saying, universities teaching linguistics are teaching concepts. They might teach how some of these concepts are in a particular language, quite often they choose the language of the country they reside in. It would be hard to teach advanced concepts in Python. That is all.

[geofft]

What advanced concepts are hard to teach in Python?

Also, do you generally teach advanced concepts in an introductory CS class?

[kyawzazaw]

> Also, do you generally teach advanced concepts in an introductory CS class?

This is also what I struggled to understand with other comments. An introductory CS class's purpose to introduce, warmup and invite students (most often w/ no background) to the world of CS. This means low barrier of entry. (which Python is well suited for).

Yes, there are other languages that offer more features and more explicitly but the point of intro CS classes is to spark the curiosity with a great feedback loop, while eliminating obstacles to learn.