Programming languages as part of core computer science
Kim B. Bruce, Stephen N. Freund · ACM SIGPLAN Notices · 2008
While the programming languages course played a key role in Curricula '68, '78, and '91, Curriculum 2001 replaced most of the content in programming languages with sections on learning to program. We argue that the need for a programming languages course has not diminished, but instead increased, especially as we move into an era of many-core computing.