Lisp vs. C++ (not off-topic)

[clayasaurus]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Sean Kelly wrote:
>> I believe that D has a definite opportunity to do better than C++ in 
>> code clarity and ease of programming, but I'm not sure the library is 
>> sufficient quiet yet.  The C++ algorithm/iterator model is extremely 
>> powerful and D's foreach and delegates aren't enough by themselves.  
>> For example, writing the code snippet above in D would be much more 
>> like the original C++ version than my rewrite.  For D to be great, I 
>> think it will need an standard algorithm-oriented library that 
>> exploits D's unique language features.  DTL seemed a likely candidate, 
>> but development on it stalled ages ago.  But perhaps it contains ideas 
>> worth pursuing.  I'll admit it's been so long that I've forgotten a 
>> lot of the details of how it works.
> 
> D just needs a foreach_reverse statement.

old thread on the subject: 
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/17320.html