Programming Languages Taught in Library Schools, 1980 versus 1986
Charles H. Davis · Journal of Education for Library and Information Science · 1990
During a period when microcomputers assumed a major role in contemporary society, there appears to have been a small but statistically insignificant percentage increase among schools that either required computer programming or made it available. The overall pattern for the types of languages taught did not change, but there was significantly more use made of the languages BASIC and Pascal, and less of PL/I and COBOL. There was little reported use of string-manipulation languages such as SNOBOL in the more recent survey, and dBASE and Prolog were mentioned for the first time.