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I really wish schools would teach compiled languages before scripting languages.


Great news, python is compiled, you got your wish.


Unless you use pyc it's only as compiled if you count php as compiled. Just in time bytecode compilation does not a compiled language make.


Maybe you should have been more precise when you made your wish to the monkey paw. Because python is certainly a valid answer to the comment you wrote.

Also I think you’re completely wrong but that’s neither here nor there.


What's the current CS101 standard? I know when I was in college in the late 1990s, it went from Pascal to C++ to Java.


In college, sure - they actually started us on C/C++ and then had us work in ASM for discrete math...

But in middle and high school now I believe they teach...whatever the teacher wants. So a lot of js, python, vb...




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