A summary of D's design principles

[Walter Bright]

Walter Bright wrote:
> C wasn't designed around a single paradigm, either, it 
> was intended as a general purpose language, and was specifically not 
> designed for any particular area of application (so says K&R).

One example of C not being a particular paradigm is that it included modern (for 
the time) structured programming constructs, but still supported goto.