Pitching D to academia

[Jay Norwood via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 6 March 2016 at 07:38:01 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> 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

I think the D std.parallelism library would be a nicer starting 
point than using openMP if the examples are targeted toward demo 
on smaller multi-core systems.

Also, someone posted here on an app named vlang.  That sounded 
like it could make an interesting combo with a system-C course.