Walter Bright wrote: > I don't think that is the reason PHP is such a bear to work with.
It is one of the problems with PHP, but I'm not sure it applies to D the same way. Almost *every time* I write PHP, I either mess up a name or the argument order. (Sometimes, PHP functions go src, dest, and sometimes it's dest, src. Ugh! The worst part is it doesn't even catch this. A name mismatch throws an error when it's run. Reversed arguments just silently do the wrong thing.) The random argument order is a huge huge pain. Contrast with D, where I've almost never forgotten a name. Granted, it might be due to my auto-complete function so I type once and only once, but it just hasn't been a big deal. Thanks to the UFCS with arrays, the argument order is almost always the same to work with that, so the much bigger problem never occurs.
