Just where has this language gone wrong?

[Petr Janda]

Hi,

I'm an occasional lurker on the D forums just to see where the 
language is going,but I'm a little puzzled. In another thread I 
found this code

auto r = [5, 3, 5, 6, 8].sort.uniq.map!(x => x.to!string);

I don't understand whats going on here. Int array is getting 
sorted, then Uniqued, then what? What type is x? What kind of 
operator is =>, why is x.to!string allowed template 
specialization should say x.to!(string), which leads me to think 
that there are multiple syntaxes for things(why I hate dynamic 
languages, love compiled)

On another note, (copied from wikipedia)

foreach(item; set) {
   // do something to item
}

what's with the lax syntax being allowed? Shouldn't it be at 
least specified "auto item"?

I'm sorry I don't mean to be a criticizer, but it seems to me 
that D is trying to be a dynamic-like compiled language way too 
hard.