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I agree, but those don't need to be the languages you use in all classes. I learned a few assembly and academic languages (MIPS and LISP) in classes for those two topics, and it was absolutely useful to learn how to think in terms of those languages. The vast majority of our classes were Java though, and that's also been the vast majority of what I've done since graduation. (I think my school has since moved to Python as well)

So I graduated with that really helpful knowledge about why modern languages work how they do, but also a lot of practical experience of actually using those modern languages too.



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