Won a programming contest using D - Thank you for the tool!

[Joakim via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 18 August 2014 at 00:10:21 UTC, Ivan Kazmenko wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just won a three-month-long programming contest (Al 
> Zimmermann's Programming Contest - Alphabet City) using the D 
> programming language as my main tool.  I want to share my 
> happiness, and express my deep gratitude, to the people who 
> work on this tool.  You are a part of what made this a pleasant 
> and educative experience.  Thank you!

Nice, though I don't know how fair it is to have a university 
professor take part in such a contest. ;)

> Links for the interested:
> Contest homepage: http://azspcs.net/Contest/AlphabetCity
> My contest program, now on GitHub: 
> https://github.com/GassaFM/alphabet-city/
> A technical report draft: 
> http://acm.math.spbu.ru/~gassa/az/alphabet-city/technical-report.html

It would be good if you could expand on your thoughts on D from 
part 11 of your technical report and post it somewhere, so that 
others can learn from your experience.