[fishmaster]

I didn't say anything about areas whose research focus coincides with 'real-world needs', I specifically talked about programming languages and concepts. And no, universities should not teach micro services, enterprise Java code, or the latest frontend frameworks. But yeah, keep twisting my words around.

[geofft]

Sorry, I'm still not sure I understand. You're saying that computer science is one of the specific areas whose research focus does not and should not coincide with "real-world needs," in contrast to history, economics, biology, law, and music? Or am I misunderstanding you badly?

What other fields of study are like computer science in that they shouldn't be about real-world needs? For a given discipline, how do you tell which of the two categories it falls into?