Re: why no OCaml teaching

On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 06:05:28PM +0000, Kenneth Miller [email protected] [ocaml_beginners] wrote:
>  
>  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.

Also that the job of universities is to explore and lead, not merely 
to follow.

-- hendrik