The purpose of D (GC rant, long)

[Charles Fox]

>>As an aside, academia moving away from explicit memory managed languages in
their curriculum's is
probably producing quite a few programmers who know very little about memory
management and how it
can effect performance.

Interesting -- I just read this on the same day as noticing that Cambridge has
ditched Java from its course and put C++ back there -- make of that what you will!