Re: why no OCaml teaching

I agree strongly Mr. Herr. I get very irritated with how ideas *and* work I've generated is referred to as theoretical. 

    On Wednesday, March 23, 2016 1:43 PM, "'Mr. Herr' [email protected] [ocaml_beginners]" <[email protected]> wrote:
 

      
 
 On 23.03.2016 17:55, Douglas Lewit [email protected] [ocaml_beginners] wrote:
  
    Ken, 
  Also, a quick question here.  Where I go to school Java is the #1 language.  Not a bad choice at all.  I think Java rocks, but there are other languages of course.  In my CS department Python is the #2 language.  Why hasn't Ocaml become more popular?  It's actually an interesting language, and can really help CS students break through the "recursion barrier" that makes the Data Structures course insurmountably difficult for some students.
   
 "innocent" question, difficult answer.
 
 I think the problem is that beginners and people outside of education are protesting loudly against "languages nobody uses",
 or "esoteric academic subjects", supposedly "unimportant" for your work as a programmer. 
 
 They don't understand that Informatics students are not learning one language, apply for the next
 job offer that requires it, and are done, but they have to learn the principles of programming.
 
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