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c# you mean? 5th most popular language overall, and a lot higher in business, largely because of visual studio, which is pretty nice (edged out slightly by the JetBrains stuff, but then add resharper to VS and you get the best of both worlds). Java has been most popular though for some time now though.

Hopefully they’re not teaching specific languages but principles. That’s why it was always common to start with Pascal which enforces structure a lot of languages let you get away with. Hopefully you don’t have Cobol inflicted on you…

Really though as a programmer it’s your job to know a little bit of everything (well, almost… probably not worth learning ops5 in 2018…). It’s not hard to learn a new language once you’ve got one or two under your belt (90% of the time it’s just deciding where the brackets go*).

  • Which, in the case of lisp, is everywhere.