Worse is better?

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 10/9/2014 1:34 AM, "Ola Fosheim Grøstad" 
<ola.fosheim.grostad+dlang at gmail.com>" wrote:
> And even then you have a problem when so many D users think that "alias this" is
> a good idea… It is a hack and a "worse is better" design. In order to avoid such
> constructs you need to think about the semantics of the language in a more
> "axiomatic" manner.

I agree that 'alias this' syntax is a bit hackish, and I've never been happy 
with that, but the semantics are pretty darned good.