Map/Reduce/Filter

[Walter Bright]

bearophile wrote:
> Walter Bright:
>> We could sure use an article like this for D: 
>> http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/2008/06/16/FunctionalProgrammingInC30HowMapReduceFilterCanRockYourWorld.aspx
>>  Anyone game?
> 
> You know that I have spent many months to write a large group of
> mostly functional-style open source libs for D 1.x (quite more
> complete and smarter than the stuff in std.algorithm of 2.x, but
> possibly a bit slower), and on my blog I have discussed many times
> about this topic, showing usage examples too.

Writing about it in your blog is important, but writing articles will 
reach a much wider audience.

> So writing another
> smallish article about such usages seems possible. But that article
> looks mostly about LINQ, that's much better (mostly because it's more
> integrated and pervasive in the language and systems usable from it,
> like the DBMS) than anything I can create with D. So maybe a
> comparison will not show many advantages compared to that LINQ
> code...
> 
> If someone else has some suggestions I'll willing to listen to them.
> 
> Bye and thank you for the suggestion, bearophile