D as a college language

[Sjoerd Nijboer]

So i'm a college student in and what bothers me is that there 
seem to kind of assume programming languages don't evolve or 
don't get replaced by better ones.
Right now if you go to college you'll most likely get tought c++, 
c# or java for any comp sci degree. While these languages are 
industrial standards, they all have their drawbacks. And one 
drawback that looks important for teaching is flexibility in 
expressiveness.

 From my experience college students seem to have problems 
translating their often declarative thought process into actual 
semi compile-able code that runs in a given language.
Since D seems to be a language that supports a lot of programming 
paradigms very well, wouldn't it be beneficial to learn people 
declarative programming using D for a little and from there 
expose them to other programming styles in thesame language to 
lower the barrier of entry?

I think D could play a bigger role in education since its such a 
"clean" language that is flexible but doesn't have any real 
gotcha "features". Its also a language that could potentially be 
used over someones entire college career as the primary language. 
If this would be achieved there would be a higher income flow 
into the industry of young D programmers which will pollute other 
programmers with the D mind and featureset.