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pcbluesyesterday at 4:44 PM1 replyview on HN

I always enjoy these summaries. I took my bachelor of computer science in the early 1990s. It covered a language in most of these categories.

We didn't learn APL (Who is teaching the use of those custom keyboards to 100s of young students for one semester?)

The processing power of systems at the time made it clear which language classes were practically useful and usable for the time and which were not.

Prolog ran like a dog for even simple sets of logic.

We had the best internet access and pretty powerful desktop systems for the time.

I'm still curious why we didn't learn smalltalk. Could have been the difficulty of submitting and marking a system in a particular state rather than a file of code :)


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eichinyesterday at 8:31 PM

> who

Yale :-) Alan Perlis' intro to CS at Yale back in the late 80s was an APL class (a relatively small one, though.)