Just where has this language gone wrong?

[Stuart]

Let me just add, I really *like* the terse syntax of D. Lambdas, 
uniform function call syntax, and so on.

Although the most important difference between C++ and D, in my 
opinion, is the absence of the damn #include statement!! That 
archaic assembly-language-inspired way of cramming billions of 
lines of code into a single text document; then compiling it; and 
then bitching about redefined symbols and incompatibilities 
between headers has caused me more hours of hair-tearing 
frustration than any single other language "feature".

Garbage-collection I can live without. Closures, properties and 
events I really miss when they're not available. But header files 
were the single worst thing to ever befall coders.