[prog] Sample implementations of UNIX utilities.

[Terri Oda]

> My alma mater has gone to an entirely Java-based curriculum.  C/C++ are
> never used.  There's one class which uses Scheme, but other than that
> it's all-Java, all the time.

That's unfortunate.  I think it's pretty important that students be exposed
to a bunch of different languages, since it gives them some basic insight
into the "best tool for the job" way more professional programmers work. 
(Not that all of them learn it, from the horror stories I've heard... but at
least the school's trying.)

But... have you heard of other universities going the route of yours?
 
I ask because I suspect your alma mater may be the exception, not the rule.
I know lots of universities are heading the Java route (it seems like the
ones in this province all switched to Java for first year classes in 1998 or
so), but I don't know of any others who've abandoned teaching other
languages so much.  Even after the java switch here, students are taught C
or C++ and assembly in their first two years, followed by others dependant
upon the specific course, be it scheme, lisp, perl, smalltalk, etc.  It's
fairly similar at the other universities where I know students or recently
ex-students.

You may not have to despair yet. ;)

 Terri