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Will CS Students Switch From Microsoft?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the depends-on-the-faculty-too dept.

spotter writes: "There's an article in Newsweek International that talks about how Microsoft's tactics are turning off an entire generation of CS students from their products and increasing the fortunes of Linux." The article isn't deep or flawless, but hits on a major point: what students learn in school is key to what they go on to do.

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  1. An anti-MS article on msnbc.com, I don't think so. by jarodss · · Score: 0, Troll

    I started to read it, really I did, but when I got to "Microsoft's selling point has been its universe of tightly designed software that fits together like a puzzle" I had to stop.

    I wanted an article on programming choices, not MS FUD.

  2. Re:Well.. what I DO know is this.. by Cardhore · · Score: 1, Troll

    Why doesn't anyone use LISP or Scheme when they are clearly the better than Java and C++?

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  3. Re:Well.. what I DO know is this.. by scrytch · · Score: 1, Troll

    > Why doesn't anyone use LISP or Scheme when they are clearly the better than Java and C++?

    That "study" self-selected lisp programmers among people who had been programming in Lisp longer than Java has even existed. Doesn't give me a lot of reason to give much credence to the rest of it.

    Lisp isn't even all that interesting as a language, it lacks almost everything that makes modern functional languages good, from strong typing to polymorphism.

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