Why are universities teaching this stuff? Stata, Java, no SQL

I took an RDBMS class to complete a comp sci minor back in the dark ages.. 1984ish. Agree at some level it should be taught.

Disagree on the Java thing - its use is very wide spread outside of academia. Rust? Not so much, maybe one day. It would be appropriate to have electives in things such as Lisp or C and perhaps one or the other should be part of what is necessary for a major.

Not sure I would hold Middlebury up quite so high, especially in comp. sci where they certainly do not have a long track record. Poster is located in Burlington so perhaps local bias and of course name rep.