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What are you trying to say? I lack context here.

That community colleges were behind the curve? Ahead of the curve? Or is there even a message?

Behind the curve; not up to date on the latest tech advancements. This is common criticism of the "lower-tier" schools generating "business process automation" coders for old industries like healthcare and manufacturing.

My first CC programming course (early 80's) was in Fortran (probably because of that mainframe they had chilling in the server room,) but I had several others on micros (TRS-80!) I have found being exposed to multiple environments helpful in the time since then.

Did you read the article?