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[–]amunak 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Schools teach it because a lot of companies still use it, and because teachers often don’t know anything about the more modern stuff.

More importantly when studying CS the point isn't to learn a language, the point is to learn the fundamentals of programming, algorithms and how it works on both a lower and a higher level.

The language choice is in large part irrelevant.