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		cecida on July 9, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The 90s Developer Starter Pack Pascal was still the language being taught to first year students in the university I attended in the late 90's. Our "multimedia" professor was very in to Javascript, but assured us that it would be replaced by something more efficient. Neither happened.

naavis on July 10, 2023 [–]

We still had programming classes in school with Pascal in the early 00s.

jasonfarnon on July 10, 2023 | [–]

In fact, my recollection is the AP computer science curriculum was in pascal until around 2000.

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