The purpose of D (GC rant, long)

Sean Kelly sean at f4.ca
Fri Oct 27 06:38:28 PDT 2006


Charles Fox 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.
> 
> Interesting -- I just read this on the same day as noticing that Cambridge has
> ditched Java from its course and put C++ back there -- make of that what you will!

According to Bjarne, this is happening at a few schools.  He said it's 
the result of pressure from the industry, which has a high demand for 
students who know C++.


Sean



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