Lisp vs. C++ (not off-topic)

[Walter Bright]

Sean Kelly wrote:
> I believe that D has a definite opportunity to do better than C++ in 
> code clarity and ease of programming, but I'm not sure the library is 
> sufficient quiet yet.  The C++ algorithm/iterator model is extremely 
> powerful and D's foreach and delegates aren't enough by themselves.  For 
> example, writing the code snippet above in D would be much more like the 
> original C++ version than my rewrite.  For D to be great, I think it 
> will need an standard algorithm-oriented library that exploits D's 
> unique language features.  DTL seemed a likely candidate, but 
> development on it stalled ages ago.  But perhaps it contains ideas worth 
> pursuing.  I'll admit it's been so long that I've forgotten a lot of the 
> details of how it works.

D just needs a foreach_reverse statement.