Which D features to emphasize for academic review article

[TJB]

On Thursday, 9 August 2012 at 18:35:22 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 8/9/2012 10:40 AM, dsimcha wrote:
>> I'd emphasize the following:
>
> I'd like to add to that:
>
> 1. Proper support for 80 bit floating point types. Many 
> compilers' libraries have inaccurate 80 bit math functions, or 
> don't implement 80 bit floats at all. 80 bit floats reduce the 
> incidence of creeping roundoff error.

How unique to D is this feature?  Does this imply that things 
like BLAS and LAPACK, random number generators, statistical 
distribution functions, and other numerical software should be 
rewritten in pure D rather than calling out to external C or 
Fortran codes?

TJB