Comment by gonehome

I always thought it was interesting that a lot of the top CS schools seem to use Java as their teaching language rather than C++ (or C). I've heard that MIT is using python (switched from scheme) and I know the University of Chicago uses Scheme. My school (RPI) uses C++, but I don't know anyone else who does. I recognize that the teaching language is largely irrelevant to the material, but I wonder why the departments choose the different languages.