Why - summary notes that came out from yesterday's 2 why groups - turing completeness one language is a good as another need to make the case the experience with two+ languages is important point out the contradiction - learning a new lang is easy; teaching them can't even fit in the curriculum domain underneath changes section of the report material in two sets of notes from yesterday students will only use one, preparing a student for this rare event is a waste of time - recent evidence that there are more and more languages, integrate other - well maybe the 90s was an anomoly, very disruptive technologies (web), rare that such technologies will occur - last time: early 70s, pcs - in globalization, you won't get far thinking locally - we need hard data how many people use one languaage or one+ - hard data in this are will be unconvincing to some - how many use only one language - how many of these work in a group where others use other languages - which language - which languages - another argument - breadth of knowledge in wildly different ways, using wildly different models, makes you a better more employable person - life long learning and employment longevity, choice in employment in the long term - at sun - most use more than one language, jvm/C/C++ - modern web services - IBM plx, pl1, egl, cobol, C++, Java language you learned in school is not the one you use in industry - even stronger -- most people today in this industry -- do not stay the same, if you are good at changing languages, you will have more choice to change later - people who know that stuff (Jim's slides), url, how many languages, from Stuart - intellectual horizon expansion - how to word this -- as objections? articulate the positive only - don't want google to hit on these - when the course is optional, few students take the course this needs to be added and refuted - I never took the course and I don't need it - I took the course and never used it - Martin: I cannot identify a pl course that is required, I can't identify a pl course at all david gifford - no it was a grad class are our graduates defficient? debated.