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Well there's a reason universities switched to Java when teaching algorithms and containers after the 90's. C++ is a weaker abstraction that encourages the kind of curiosity that's going to cause a student's brain to melt the moment they try to figure out how things work and encounter the sorts of demons the coursework hasn't prepared them to face. If I was going to teach it, I'd start with octal machine codes and work my way up. https://justine.lol/blinkenlights/realmode.html Sort of like if I were to teach TypeScript then I'd start with JavaScript. My approach to native development probably has more in common with web development than it does with modern c++ practices to be honest, and that's something I talk about in one of my famous hacks: https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/4577f7fe11e5d8ef0a...


US universities maybe, there isn't much Java on my former university learning plan.

The only subjects that went full into Java were distributed computing and compiler design.

And during the last 20 years they already went back into their decision.

I should note that languages like Prolog, ML and Smalltalk were part of the learning subjects as well.

Assembly was part of electronic subjects where design of a pseudo CPU was also part of the themes. So we had our own pseudo Assembly, x86 and MIPS.


> Well there's a reason universities switched to Java when teaching algorithms and containers after the 90's

Where ? I learned algorithms in C and C++ (and also a bit in Caml and LISP) and I was in university 2011-2014




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