Why I chose D over Ada and Eiffel

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling]

On Wednesday, 21 August 2013 at 17:48:49 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> No random access. I didn't know about drop-last though - does 
> it work in O(1)?

There is "nth" 
<http://clojure.github.io/clojure/clojure.core-api.html#clojure.core/nth> 
but the O(n) cited there is rather disturbing.

> More accurately was the point that Clojure's sequence API is 
> (to the best of my understanding) only dealing with forward 
> access, whereas D distinguishes between one-pass, forward, 
> bidirectional, and random, and designs algorithms around these 
> notions.

I'll check up with my friend on the forward access side.  What 
certainly seems to be true is that the API doesn't make the 
useful distinctions/classifications that D does.