[ggm]

the T(wo)LA of UC in UCSD/UCSC can't be entirely ignored. the p-system was very innovative, but ultimately got sidelined I think UC decided to self-host its teaching paradigm, well and good. If you'd gone to any other university without UC in its name you might not have had the p-System thrown at you so much. Obviously if you'd gone to UCB, things would have been radically different.

The interesting thing to me is that San Diego hosts the supercomputer centre and so there was a sense the engineers there really live in Fortan, did, and do.

(I was in the UK system at the same time as you, and my uni had Wirth on sabbatical for a year, during the ada/modula specification days. We all learned on Pascal on a Dec-10, unless you chose the other door and went LISP. I regret not going in the LISP door now, but hindsight is like that)

[kagakuninja]

My friend told me that functional languages didn't like IO, and that they used recursion instead of loops. I thought "that is fucking nuts" and stuck with C. I basically had Dunning-Kruger in my youth.

Now I am a Scala programmer, often doing pure-FP with Cats...