Am I evil for this?

[Paul Backus]

On Friday, 14 October 2022 at 22:48:51 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 10/14/2022 2:07 PM, Max H wrote:
>> D not using + for strings was something that helped sell me on 
>> it early on.
>
> When I was working on that, I could not believe that other 
> languages persisted in conflating add with concatenate, which 
> continues to cause confusion.

Perhaps ironically, one of the languages that got this right was 
Perl: it used + for numeric addition and . (period) for string 
concatenation.