The best programming course I had in college was one on comparative programming languages (and not just 'cause I was the only student who was able to do all of

The best programming course I had in college was one on comparative programming languages (and not just 'cause I was the only student who was able to do all of the Lisp exercises solo) --- it was quite striking getting an overview of the history of computer science and to see the myriad approaches which had been used.