[WalterBright]

> shoehorning

That happens to all languages over time. The more interesting thing is how well do those features fit in with the language's style.

[epage]

D was still fairly young when I was looking at the feature list [0]. The impression I walked away from it with is "Hey, this thing in boost is cool, let's bake it into the language".

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20110320130326/http://www.digita...