How convice people that D it's wonderfull in a hour ?

[Dmitry Olshansky]

On 09.10.2011 14:00, Zardoz wrote:
> Recently I've been asked if I could give a speech about D in my university. It
> will be of one hour of long.
> I not respond yet, but I think that I will do it. Actually I have the problem
> that I don't know well how explain well too many features and things of D that
> I like. I think that only talking about D's arrays and type system I will need
> around half-hour.
> Any recommendation of how I should focus it ?

Depending on the audience if I'd be giving a talk to a gang of C++ 
programmers I'd try to focus on small separate cool topics like:
  -arrays & slices, with optional GC
  -delegates & nested functions
  -scope(exit/success/failure)
  -simple uses of CTFE
Then maybe clean template with static if & template constraints, maybe 
variadic template and alias params, maybe codegen with string mixin. 
Stuff like typeof(...) and __traits usually blows mind off way too early.

Based on my (limited) experience with fellow programmers it's only hurts 
to go into greater detail, it causes thoughts like 'as huge as C++ and 
with a pack of new pitfalls' and little to no enthusiasm. So you'd have 
to place your bet on a few prime features (e.g. 3 like in one of Andrei 
talk). And then you can casually present a short list of other cool 
features and say a thing or two about them, not forgetting that there is 
even more.

-- 
Dmitry Olshansky