Why I chose D over Ada and Eiffel

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling]

On 20/08/13 00:00, Walter Bright wrote:
> While not unique to D, I believe that ranges will become a killer feature -
> killer enough that languages that don't support pipeline programming will start
> looking like propeller driven airliners.

On that note -- I was chatting with a (very functional- and Lisp-oriented) 
friend about D and, when ranges were mentioned, he immediately connected it with 
Clojure's concept of "sequences": http://clojure.org/sequences

Does anyone know the history/relationship here between these and D's ranges? 
Was it a direct influence from D, or convergent evolution -- and can anyone 
comment on the relative merits of the D vs. Clojure approaches?