I am glad my first year at Uni (1994) they focused on SML a lot. Got a good base for the rest of our programming journey. Even now that I live in mostly Scala-land nearly 30 years later. And yes also a lot of other languages over the course's years. I still remember being forced to do bits of VHDL. We were taught the history of Simula (and Algol) but had to use C++ as our main object orientated language. They refused to teach my year Java so we had to learn that on our own.