Pitching D to academia

[Minas Mina via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 6 March 2016 at 07:38:01 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> Motivated by Dmitry's "Pitching D to a gang of Gophers" thread, 
> how about pitching it to a gang of professors and graduate 
> students?
>
> I will be presenting D to such an audience at METU in Ankara. 
> What are the points that you would stress? I am thinking that 
> they would be interested more in whether D is better as a 
> teaching tool. Do you agree?
>
> Ali

What about:

D can be used as a high level, high productivity scripting 
language, just like Python, with two exceptions:
1) You get static type checking
2) When can compile the program instead of interpreting when you 
need the performance. No need to re-write it.