Why Ruby?

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> Completely agree, although note that a large fraction of the complexity  
> of Phobos comes from workarounds for compiler bugs.
> The language right now is IMHO *far* too complicated --  especially as  
> regards to parameter passing (maybe everything else is OK, not sure).

Parameter passing is an important problem but D at least tries to provide  
a solution.
Until someone come with a better one, current solution will be the best.

Would you like that D ignore the situation like many(all?) others just to  
be called "not so complex" language? I believe not.

On the other hand i would like to see the same treatment for inlining.
Like adding a keyword (maybe "inline"), but unlike C++ hint this would be  
a forceinline which outputs an error if it is not possible.
I believe this would solve many problems.

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