On 11/29/05, mental / rydia.net <mental / rydia.net> wrote:
>
> Wow, ok.
>
> I'd have to say that's a bit more "catching on" than Ruby's done to
> date, in any sense of the term.

Not really. Universities regularly teach things that students will
never use in the real world. Before switching to Java my university
taught the basic CS course using Scheme. I also learned Lisp for my AI
class. Yet I certainly don't see a ton of people using those
languages, and I certainly don't see many jobs asking for experience
in those languages. I'm not saying this to belittle those languages,
but the reality is that the real world and universities don't always
match up.

Ryan