Which D features to emphasize for academic review article

[TJB]

On Monday, 13 August 2012 at 10:11:06 UTC, Don Clugston wrote:

>  ... I have come to believe that there are very few algorithms 
> originally designed for integers, which also work correctly for 
> floating point.
>
> Integer code nearly always assumes things like, x + 1 != x, x 
> == x,
> (x + y) - y == x.
>
>
> for (y = x; y < x + 10; y = y + 1) { .... }
>
> How many times does it loop?

Don,

I would appreciate your thoughts on the issue of re-implementing 
numeric codes like BLAS and LAPACK in pure D to benefit from the 
many nice features listed in this discussion.  Is it feasible? 
Worthwhile?

Thanks,

TJB