On Sat, 05 Mar 2016 23:38:01 -0800, 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
D has good support for functional programming. It's had support for this long enough that it's well baked into the standard library. It doesn't do single-write, all-values-are-immutable style so well, though, which is another intuitive leap learning functional languages. But if you get people used to first-class functions in D, where they can make everything mutable, it should be easier to teach Haskell or OCaml or Elm.
