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  • August 15, 2012 at 10:26 am

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    Eric M Russell (8/15/2012)

    If I had to teach all college graduates one language, it would be SQL. It's more practical than C. Most all developers these days write at least some SQL, and most do it badly.

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    I'd agree here if you are querying data. Maybe everyone should have that.

    If you teach them C, they'll spend weeks learning how print "Hello World" on a console, will never use it, and will forget everything three months.

    I disagree. The basic concepts of programming will stick with them, even if they don't use them directly. All the stuff I saw in C still exists in C#, Java, Python, etc.