[gurkendoktor]

I just looked up my old university's curriculum and it must be another university - our 'Programming 101' is half C, half Java now. I bet our students will never hear of recursion on campus anymore.

From what I heard as a student assistant, there were all sorts of reasons for dropping Scheme. First, professors have to use half of their time for research, and there isn't much useful research left in programming languages (given that the industry is decades behind that research, anyway). Second, many of our old professors started out in mathematics, unlike the new generation. Third, everything is being dumbed down. :(

At least my job is secure...