Why I chose D over Ada and Eiffel

Tue Aug 20 11:17:12 PDT 2013

On 20/08/13 19:47, Walter Bright wrote:
> This style of programming has been around at least since the Unix "pipes and
> filters" model. It also appears as C#'s LINQ programming style.
>
> However, LINQ and Clojure were not direct influences on D's ranges.

Since Clojure is more recent than D, and AFAICT its sequences API seems to have 
arrived in later versions of the language, I wondered if the influence had been 
in the opposite direction.

When were ranges first introduced in D?