The purpose of D (GC rant, long)

[Sean Kelly]

Dave wrote:
> 
> As an aside, academia moving away from explicit memory managed languages 
> in their curriculum's is probably producing quite a few programmers who 
> know very little about memory management and how it can effect performance.

Yup.  This is one of my major complaints about using Java in place of 
C++ as a teaching language.  Sure, it allows the focus to be on the 
algorithm instead of all the peripheral aspects, but the result is 
students who aren't aware of the peripheral aspects.  The cost of 
virtual methods is another issue.  I'd rather students suffer through a 
bit of additional complexity and end up not needing the additional 
experience they've gained than be ignorant of the issues.


Sean