On 12/9/2010 11:27 AM, Ddev wrote:
hi community,
How convince my teacher to go in D ?
After talk with my teacher, i do not think D is good because after 10 years is
not become the big one. she is very skeptical about D. If i could convince my
teacher it will be great maybe i will teach to his
students :)
Please don't.
D is a language with essentially zero base. Companies using D are few
and far between. The vast majority of D projects are abandoned. Support
for the tools is spotty, intermittent, and seems to depend to a large
extent on politics and ego. Similarly, the amount of "churn" in the
std.* namespace is pretty clear cause for concern.
Technically, there is very little new in D, and what appear to be
planned features have not made much development progress. Learning D
means that other related languages (Java, C++, C) would appear to have
fewer features in terms of syntax, but will permit writing the same
programs. It's a lot nicer to learn to program in Pascal and then
discover C than it would be to learn to program in C and then be forced
into Pascal.
From an employment perspective, most managers don't know about D. They
do know about C++ and Java. Having D on your resume is likely to be a
net negative. (You have to unlearn D, and then learn C++ or Java, and no
doubt you'll be whining about it the whole time.)
The place where D2 seems to offer value lies in metaprogramming, since
it supports a friendlier syntax. But if you're doing any kind of survey
course, it seems straightforward to move from Java to Functional to C++
metaprogramming, which should eliminate the difficulty.
I don't see where D has anything to offer a computer teacher. There
isn't a convenient, trivially-installed IDE (Java, .NET). There isn't
any corporate grant money (Java, .NET). There isn't any industry demand
(Java, C++, .NET). There isn't any piece of amazing new technology that
is only available in D (Java, Ruby, Assembly). There isn't an incredibly
diverse collection of existing code freely available (Java, Perl). There
isn't an enormous installed base (Java, .NET, Perl, C, C++, Cobol, Ada,
Fortran, Ruby, Python). It isn't a dumbed down teaching language
(Pascal, Java, Lisp).
Bottom line: you'd be wasting your time and your teacher's time. If
you're still in school, you shouldn't be looking at D at all. You should
be learning some of the functional languages to stretch your brain, or
learning some of the popular procedural languages to pad your resume.
=Austin
