sparced 😂 ah, good one ...
I was never a big Java fan, it felt like a wrong/bad direction to me at the time... from the more academic/CS side of the school there was a counter-push to Python, which I think mainly won out in the end (I'd left before all this played out.)
I didn't really like the idea of having a "core" language at all - and thankfuly when I was there things were still in a place where in a CS course you got exposure to a decent range ... C, C++, various assembly languages, Haskell, Prolog, as well as Perl, Java, and Python (and thanks to one particularly nerdy PhD lecturer even a bit of Brainfuck and other esoteric silliness.)
I do hope it is still more like that than how it seemed to be heading ~25 years ago. Some unis are better than others, but I think there was a general more "vocational" trend in CS (SE) education globally in that whole ".com" era.
Yvan
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