D as a college language

[Russel Winder]

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.

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Russel.
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