I might be biased as a retrocoder hobbyist myself, but I feel like 6502 assembly would still be very useful in the classroom as a teaching tool, with it's small and (IMO) relatively straightforward instruction set - in some ways it's sort of like the 8-bit RISC-before-there-was-RISC processor. Plus there's great retrocoding potential once you learn it! ;)
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I might be biased as a retrocoder hobbyist myself, but I feel like 6502 assembly would still be very useful in the classroom as a teaching tool, with it's small and (IMO) relatively straightforward instruction set - in some ways it's sort of like the 8-bit RISC-before-there-was-RISC processor. Plus there's great retrocoding potential once you learn it! ;)
We could call it "LISC". The instruction set was never reduced, but its growth was limited by what Peddle and hist folks could fit on the chip.
And yes. I learned to program on a TI-55 calculator. Limiting complexity is a very useful tool to introduce someone to programming.