On 6/18/2020 1:53 PM, tastyminerals wrote:
On Saturday, 13 June 2020 at 03:16:05 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3386323
Many, many thanks to Mike Parker and Andrei Alexandrescu for their endless
hours spent fixing the mess I originally wrote.
Thank you. Printed and started reading today before work. A lot of interesting
insights about the rationale behind design decisions. For a non C/C++
programmer, this helps me better understand D and it's close relationship with
these languages. Cool stuff.
As I did research on what happened and when, I discovered many of my
recollections were wrong or out of order. Fortunately, I kept all the emails and
there's the n.g. archives, without which writing that article would have been
impossible.