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ModernMech 7 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: America is getting an AI gold rush instead of a fa...

Yeah I have students who ask me "Why are we learning C++? My dad said it's older than him!"

mikewarot 7 months ago [–]

Ask that question in language arts, and you'll get some very weird looks.

ModernMech 7 months ago | [–]

That's pretty much what I told the student, along with "everything you're studying in every other class is also older than your dad, and that's why you study it."

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