coreutils with D trials, wc, binary vs well formed utf

[btiffin]

Thanks for these hints.

I'm new here, but not so much to programming.  Been following D 
since, well 2007 or 8.  Awaiting the GCCing to gel.  Nice.  Still 
a little rough on Ubuntu 18.04, dub package seems to want ldc and 
dmd from dlang borks with a segfault in start (which is probably 
a my end problem and linker searches).  The pkg-config settings 
pass -L-l, and I'm not sure gdc is overly friendly with that.  
gtkD in Ubuntu is smoother with ldc too, but tis ok.  Choice is 
good, and having three installations is still pretty easy to 
explore.

Looking forward to more bragging about D.  An early integration 
trial with GnuCOBOL (2015ish) looked promising.  New ease of use 
is making that even more promising.

And a note to contributors.  Nicely done.  With some 10 million 
programmers, and what? 750 million excel macro writers assuming a 
life time average of a line of code an hour for professional 
programmers, we live in a field that evolves at 4ish million 
hours an hour.  Nice to see how a few of those hours can really 
make a difference.

Have good.