D as a college language

[rikki cattermole]

On 05/05/2018 11:06 PM, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Sat, 2018-05-05 at 03:22 +1200, rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>
> […]
>> Teaching materials is easy to create.
>> My response is the response I got from my institution.
>> It is industry usage which is the problem.
>>
>> Nobody wants to take the risk without being able to point and say "they"
>> are using it for some serious work.
> 
> Let me take you back to 1994.
> 
> Universities teaching Scheme, Miranda, C++, or if they were a bit backward
> Pascal or even Modula-2. Java comes along and all universities switched to it
> and created vast amounts of teaching material. Absolutely no industrial take
> up at all.

You're forgetting one crucial detail. The people making the decisions 
now, are not the same ones back then.

I have repeated what I was told using all the same arguments presented 
in this thread and I am only relaying it here their response. It isn't 
my opinion.