On 04/05/2018 11:35 PM, Sjoerd Nijboer wrote:
So i'm a college student in and what bothers me is that there seem to
kind of assume programming languages don't evolve or don't get replaced
by better ones.
Right now if you go to college you'll most likely get tought c++, c# or
java for any comp sci degree. While these languages are industrial
standards, they all have their drawbacks. And one drawback that looks
important for teaching is flexibility in expressiveness.
From my experience college students seem to have problems translating
their often declarative thought process into actual semi compile-able
code that runs in a given language.
Since D seems to be a language that supports a lot of programming
paradigms very well, wouldn't it be beneficial to learn people
declarative programming using D for a little and from there expose them
to other programming styles in thesame language to lower the barrier of
entry?
I made this very argument during my own degree.
First we need adoption, then maybe we can start designing a course to
help get them going.
