What would a minimal subset of D look like?

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

I am wondering, what would a minimal subset of D look like?  
Something that would make the syntax/semantics look simple to a 
newbie wanting to do embedded programming, yet be useful.  Let's 
assume that we are already limited to the better-C subset.

What are the "must have" features?  I assume that "static if" 
ranks high for most D users, but what else?