Blaming the D language

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On Wednesday, 22 October 2014 at 07:46:18 UTC, bearophile wrote:
> Ola Fosheim Grøstad:
>> I also want to see string mixins removed from phobos. It is a 
>> very ugly feature.
>
> What are your problems with those strings?

1. Source level analysis: Hard to write programs that transform 
source.

2. Easy to write ugly code: It suffers from the same issues as 
macros.

3. Language integration: It is desirable to have an application 
level language that can integrate well with a low level language 
when calling out to system level libraries.

4. Uniform conventions: a lambda is more generic.

A lambda allows you to call into another language because it can 
be translated to the same intermediate format. An incomplete 
string is on a different level.