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by ThePadawan 1400 days ago
> Or even just teaching all your CS majors Haskell, if you don't have any genuinely eccentric faculty projects to inflict on students.

We got taught Eiffel Freshman year, C and Haskell Sophomore year, and after that, whenever a course used another language (Java, C#, C++), the prof just said "you'll pick it up".

(That's leaving out the usual-for-academia-but-still-weird stuff like MATLAB and Verilog)