Pitching D to academia

Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat Mar 12 01:00:00 PST 2016


On Thu, 2016-03-10 at 23:47 +0000, Andrew via Digitalmars-d wrote:
[…]
> One of awful things about programming in many languages is that 
> there's a gazillion tools you need to tack-on before you can do 
> any engineering.  In C++ that includes Doxygen for documentation, 
> C++Unit for unit tests, gprof, gcov, valgrind, and so on.  One of 
> the nice things about D is that so much of this is part of the 
> language or build into DMD.

No-one should be using C++Unit for testing in C++ codes. USe a header
only system such as Catch or CUTE.

> So yes, sure, you can add what ever you like the Java and claim 
> its just as good (or better). The difference is that in D its all 
> right there already.

And Java is already right there in the context of teaching. Adding bits
to an extent infrastructure is easier that revolutionizing the
infrastructure. Been there done this three times: far too many
academics are weighed down by inertia when it comes to changing their
infrastructure.

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