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some fundamentals don't change though... the college classes that will still remain useful would probably be either compilers or data structures. even some of the basic operating system stuff (filesystems/scheduling) would still be useful today.

compilers are still extremely practical. I'm sure everyone has had a scenario where they had to tokenize lots of strings and turn it into something meaningful.




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