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> I have great hopes of this and only hope I'm not doing my
> students a disservice when they go for a job interview and
> the reaction to Oberon is 'What?'
>
You will be doing them a great service. If the interviewer's reaction to
Oberon was 'What?' it is not a place I would want to be working in. I
have interviewed many programmers for employment and have always been
more concerned in their understanding of the basic principles rather
than specifically what languages they use.
The only risk that you take is that they may well become disillusioned
eventually if they have to work with typically inferior systems that are
out there. In my career, I was fortunate to reach the stage where the
choice of tools we used became my responsibility.
I wish you and your students every success!
Chris Burrows
CFB Software
http://www.cfbsoftware.com
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