Does D have too many features?

[foobar]

On Tuesday, 8 May 2012 at 19:00:01 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
>
> I think that goal is misunderstood. It is aimed at human being, 
> not compiler.
>
> If one read D code that look like C, it should be able to 
> understand it easily. I is not supped to compile with 100% 
> exact semantic.

Unfortunately that is not the case.
The stated argument is that compiling C code with a D compiler 
should either compile exactly the same or produce a compilation 
error.

As discussed, this is _already_ incorrect for some cases, is 
completely unnecessary since you can link with pre-compiled C 
code (via a C compiler) _without_ any overhead and this forces us 
to carry legacy C design flaws.

If you talking about ease of understanding "C-like" D, that's 
already a given because D belongs to the C-family of languages. 
For that matter, JavaScript also belongs to the same family and 
is easily understood (if you write C-like code). yet no one 
expects to be able to copy/paste C code into a JS script and have 
it working as/is.