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by PortlandMEnerd 1993 days ago
Only a handful of people can earn a living becoming academics and we're in a time where many people are being "pushed" into credentialing up. Forcing people who are going back to school to further their professional careers to learn a language that isn't marketable makes the degree they're trying earn worth less.

Please think harder about why you're offering this class and consider offering something else instead that will provide more value to the adults trying to compete in this flat world.

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I've profitably used the domain modeling and program design lessons I've learned from Prolog multiple times, please and thank you. You don't need to use a language in production for it to be a valuable addition to your toolkit.