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Out of curiosity, and if it isn’t impolite to ask, where/when did this bizarre class occur?
by llasram 11y ago
Out of curiosity, and if it isn’t impolite to ask, where/when did this bizarre class occur?
- saryant 11y agoTrinity University in San Antonio. The founder of the CS department was a big fan of J and had been there since the 60's so no one really wanted to tell him to stop. J was only used in the Intro FP course. He retired the same year I graduated (2012) and AFAIK the course is now taught in a combination of Scheme, Haskell and ML. The intro sequence for majors also includes Scala so students there get a pretty good basis in FP.
- patricklynch 11y agoThe most recent version of the course - http://www.cs.trinity.edu/About/The_Courses/cs2322/ http://www.cs.trinity.edu/About/The_Courses/cs2322/ They'll probably rewrite the CS department site eventually, but until then, it's a repository of all the information about J you can handle.
- saryant 11y agoIronically, the reason the CS site hasn't been updated is because it's implemented in J. So naturally no one is willing to touch it.