It could have something to do with universities in those regions attempting to teach marketable skills. My own experience in having been forced to learn Ada instead of C/C++ resulted in me only being able to find a job at defense companies. That quite often results in your job being classified so you can't tell prospective employers what you did or show them examples of your work.
So you a) went to a college that only used one programming language ever, and b) you never learned another since then? No matter which language that was, you would have had a problem.
Where I come from,we did one language the first semester, three languages the second semester, then after that you used whatever language makes sense for the topic of the course, e.g. for a humanities course in cognition we used Prolog.
What universities teach (Score:3)
It could have something to do with universities in those regions attempting to teach marketable skills. My own experience in having been forced to learn Ada instead of C/C++ resulted in me only being able to find a job at defense companies. That quite often results in your job being classified so you can't tell prospective employers what you did or show them examples of your work.
Re:What universities teach (Score:2)
So you a) went to a college that only used one programming language ever, and b) you never learned another since then? No matter which language that was, you would have had a problem.
Where I come from,we did one language the first semester, three languages the second semester, then after that you used whatever language makes sense for the topic of the course, e.g. for a humanities course in cognition we used Prolog.