D as a college language

[rikki cattermole]

On 04/05/2018 11:35 PM, Sjoerd Nijboer wrote:
> 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 made this very argument during my own degree.

First we need adoption, then maybe we can start designing a course to 
help get them going.