Why I chose D over Ada and Eiffel

[Walter Bright]

On 8/20/2013 7:21 AM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
> 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?

This style of programming has been around at least since the Unix "pipes and 
filters" model. It also appears as C#'s LINQ programming style.

However, LINQ and Clojure were not direct influences on D's ranges.