Fair enough. And I hasten to add that I do not have any counter evidence. I think I heard rumors of the book when I was at gatech in the late 90s. Never took a course in that book, though. I wasn't in CS. CmpE was an interesting beast back then.
It seemed that the money was heavily pushing Java and that most curriculum immediately jumped to where they thought future money was. Sometimes they would back off and try to get back to a more theoretical or instruction based methodology, but would always hedge with a language that was seen as friendly to industry.
