Is D programming friendly for beginners?

[bachmeier]

On Tuesday, 12 March 2024 at 19:07:25 UTC, M.M. wrote:

> I was always wondering about this debate on a suitable "first" 
> programming language in a CS curriculum. I largely observe one 
> dividing point: to start with a strongly-typed language or not. 
> (After that, it probably does not matter so much which language 
> is chosen; alas, it should be available on Windows, Linux, and 
> Mac OS). Do you observe similar sentiment in the discussions in 
> the university settings?

I'm not a CS person so I'll have to defer to others (their needs 
are very different). My grad students are doing more complicated 
programming for data analysis and simulation. I focus on 
recursion and using a functional programming approach, because 
that simplifies things so much for these types of problems. All I 
need is a language that supports that.