Absolutely! With new languanges being developed every few years, learning a specific languange will do you no good. (In fact, it'll be useless next year when they come out with.NET++ or Java++ or whatever.) Concepts, however, will help you no matter what languange you use or whatever they come up with next.
In college they sometimes had us code with a language which they developed! (An SML-type language, in which you are required to write your whole program on ONE line.) The idea behind this is that they want to teach you how to learn new languanges and show you that no matter which languange you use, the concepts are infact the same.
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Absolutely! With new languanges being developed every few years, learning a specific languange will do you no good. (In fact, it'll be useless next year when they come out with .NET++ or Java++ or whatever.) Concepts, however, will help you no matter what languange you use or whatever they come up with next.
In college they sometimes had us code with a language which they developed! (An SML-type language, in which you are required to write your whole program on ONE line.) The idea behind this is that they want to teach you how to learn new languanges and show you that no matter which languange you use, the concepts are infact the same.