Canadian academia and open source

[James Knott]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> When I got my CS degree at Waterloo, we certainly used many open source
> programs, such as gcc, modula 3, nachos, libsvga, and many others.
> 
> The environment was mainly solaris, although at the start (1994/95) was
> mostly SunOS 4, and some ultrix and aix systems.  First year courses
> were thinkpascal on Macs, so no open source involved there.
> 
> I know java is now used instead for first year courses, and some second
> year courses (in place of modula 3), but for later stuff I doubt much
> has changed.  They still use unix and hence gcc and company for
> compiling code.  uc++ is also open source (used for a concurrency
> course).
> 
> I know some engineering courses at Waterloo now use C# for reasons I
> can't imagine other than some deal with MicroSoft.

What happened to WATFIV?  I had a course on that at Ryerson.
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