Austin Hastings <ah0801...@yahoo.com> wrote in news:ie64dv$uv...@digitalmars.com:
> I don't see where D has anything to offer a computer teacher. There > isn't a convenient, trivially-installed IDE (Java, .NET). .... No IDE? My, my, how we coddle our students today! The IDE for my first programming course, was a keypunch machine. We carried our IBM punch cards 2 miles through the snow to the local university and returned 3 days later to pick them up. (Okay, okay, my high school math teacher drove the cards, but I'm not telling my kids that.) The IDE for my first college programming course was vi.