On Tuesday, 30 August 2016 at 10:50:17 UTC, John Burrton wrote:
This is why the example on the front page put me off for a long time :-stdin .byLineCopy .array .sort!((a, b) => a > b) // descending order .each!writeln;It makes the language look like some weird high level functional language where you don't ask how it works and you shouldn't care how it maps to the machine instructions and memory.
I bet you if you had a C-style example on the front page, people would complain that it's old fashioned and not really different from C, and they'd ask "Why can't I do things like `stdin.byLineCopy.array.sort!((a, b) => ...` in D?".
