Too Long; Didn't Read
Walter Bright, who designed D, wrote an article called “<a href="http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/so-you-want-to-write-your-own-language/240165488" target="_blank">So You Want to Write Your Own Language</a>”. I love D and I respect Mr. Bright, but I disagree with nearly everything he says in it, mostly because D itself and Digital Mars’s work in general is (and should be) extremely atypical of the kind of programming language design that occurs today.