[kabisote]

I can't see why seeing the invention of a language is significant in this respect. Schools are worse at keeping up their curricula with new technology (at least where I live), so if a language were invented while you're in college, I don't think that language will be taught while you're there.

I went to college in the late 90s through early 2000 and we were taught (introduced would be more accurate) Pascal, C++ and Visual Basic. When I graduated, the language in demand was PHP.

[droidist2]

I think in the late 90s / early 2000s the big language to teach in university was Java, which is still basically true today.

As to the invention of a language being relevant, it's only relevant depending on how you define a previous language as being "obsolete." I was trying to play devil's advocate with my own point, and concede there may have been times in history when a lot was made obsolete during a 4 year period. The industry isn't really any swifter than academia though, which is why we still use 20 year old languages.

[singold]

Its 2013 and in my university, the first programming courses are taught on pascal and modula2.

I think that later they teach you in C++ and Java at least...

I understand that you should use the right tool for the job (in this case teaching) but the basic concepts(and in general most difficult to get, because you dont know anything, not because the concepts are really that difficult) are almost the same on all languages