Comment Re:I strongly agree (Score 1) 247
After a several year hiatus away from computer stuff I agree completely. I gradated CS in 2002. There was much more priority given to imperative programming and arrays for everything than there should have been. Most of the lecturers were brainwashed by terms like "object oriented is the future", "extreme programming" and other such nonsense because it's "kewl". We did some Prolog but not nearly enough.
Of that list, maybe object oriented programming is important to "know". Otherwise computer science courses should be treated as language and platform agnostic, and only focus on stuff like data structures, arrays, etc. Basic theory that is applicable to any language.
It wasn't emphasized. We did no lisp! or Scheme.. It's sad that I'm more mature than many of those guys despite being younger.
I never did any LISP programming in school either. Oddly enough the language that always fascinated me was Postscript. Its amazing what a printer page description language is capable of.