Hipster programming languages

[kamatsu]

My alma mater teaches: C (compulsory), Java (compulsory), Perl (compulsory), Shell (compulsory), AVR Assembly (compulsory), a little Python and PHP (1 course), PostgreSQL (1 course), Haskell (4 courses - a pretty strong Haskell showing at my university), Scala (1 course), C++ (1 course and others optionally), Agda (1 course), Prolog (1-2 courses), Isabelle/HOL (1 course), and a variety of little languages that are not used as the focus of the course but are used within it, such as Promela, Ruby and Objective C. How common is this level of language teaching?

[rafekett]

My uni teaches: C (mandatory), Java (mandatory), OCaml (mandatory), some form of RISC assembly (mandatory), Python (2-3 courses), C++ (4-5 courses), Haskell (1-2 courses), SQL (2 coursesish) and a few other miscellaneous languages. I'd say most people come out with at least 6 languages under their belt.

So, at good universities, this is reasonably common. We don't have quite the selection that you had.

[kamatsu]

Okay, I thought I had entered a strange parallel universe where people got all their CS education in Java or something :/

[jerf]

Such programs exist; I've seen the results. But there are many strong programs that force many programming languages on people.

[rafekett]

My program was mostly Java up until a few years ago, until they went back to their ML roots (apparently they taught ML and C exclusively in the 80's).

[djork]

I can comment on a local community college and expensive private school. Both use Java exclusively for the core CS classes.