Pitching D to academia

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 3/5/2016 11:38 PM, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> Motivated by Dmitry's "Pitching D to a gang of Gophers" thread, how about
> pitching it to a gang of professors and graduate students?
>
> I will be presenting D to such an audience at METU in Ankara. What are the
> points that you would stress? I am thinking that they would be interested more
> in whether D is better as a teaching tool. Do you agree?
>
> Ali

Things I suspect academics would be interested in are features like D's 
functional programming, purity, transitive immutability, etc.