From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On Fri, 14 Nov 2025 16:48:57 -0000 (UTC), Mechanicjay wrote:   
      
   > Sadly my undergrad work was done all in JAVA, as that was the fad at the   
   > time. And such a short fad it was.  My year was the first year they   
   > switched the program from C to JAVA.  The year after I graduated, they   
   > switched from JAVA to a mix of python and C....oh well.   
      
   iirc Sun dangled a large carrot in front of the local university if they   
   adopted Java.  This is a long tradition. In its day DEC made sure the   
   schools had access to PDP-11 systems and I doubt the college I went to   
   paid full list price for its System 360/30.  Microsoft had a substantial   
   'academic' discount for VC++ and their other products.   
      
   Java was bad but it the early '80s University of Maine used Pascal, a   
   language known for not bothering with I/O in its pure form.   
      
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