Pitching D to academia

[cym13 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

I would insist heavily on the multiparadigm properties of D: 
being able to teach C-like imperative programming, java-like OOP, 
compilers and assembly, purity and functional paradigms, testing 
and profiling, all that without having to change language even 
once is likely to be D's strongest strength for a teacher I think.