Blaming the D language

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On Wednesday, 22 October 2014 at 12:17:32 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote:
> It is easy to write ugly code in D without string mixins.
> Just take a look at the (ab)use of UFCS...

I am not a fan of UFCS either… I think it is nice to be able to 
extend aggregates with new member functions, UFCS isn't required 
to do that.

I think it would be better to focus on formally defining a nice 
generic vocabulary of free functions: sort, length etc… and 
rather add regular pipelining with tuples. E.g.:

arr -> sort -> serialize -> f.write;   ===>   
savearray(serialize(sort(arr)))

[(1,2),(3,4)] -> ((_,y1),(x2,_)) => y1*x2 -> f.write;