Dlang seems like java now,but why not let d more like C# Style?

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On Sunday, 15 March 2015 at 00:56:24 UTC, Ellery Newcomer wrote:
> On Saturday, 14 March 2015 at 23:57:33 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
>> On Saturday, 14 March 2015 at 23:46:28 UTC, Ellery Newcomer 
>> wrote:
>>> And C# has LINQ, which when combined with the last point is 
>>> fricken awesome.
>>
>> what does LINQ offer that UFCS-style functional programming 
>> does not?
>
> LINQ basically is a UFCS-style api. AST reflection is what 
> makes it nice.
>
> consider:
>
> X.Where(x => x.Members.Count() == x.Admins.Count())
>
> straightforward in both D and C# when X is an array or 
> container type.
>
> When X is a table in a database, things get tricky for D.
>
> C# can interpret the lambda as an Expression<Func> (an AST 
> type), so the implementation of X can reflect over the body of 
> the lambda and use it to generate the appropriate SQL. ORMs 
> such as entity framework and nhibernate do this now.

Somewhat off-topic, but you could theoretically embed SQL 
directly in your D code using string mixins and have it 
statically checked at compile time (this would be pretty advanced 
usage, though).

mixin SQL!q{
     INSERT INTO Person(name, age, occupation)
     VALUES ('John', 25, 'Programmer')
};