"Anders F Björklund" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > Justin Johansson wrote: > >> Anyway I think the speaker (Rob Pike) said something along the lines that >> "no new systems >> programming language has been developed in the last ten years" and there >> was no mention >> of D (at least that I picked up). Wonder if they ever looked at D or if >> Walter knows any of >> these people apart from just name? > > They started the project in "late 2007", which is one year after D was > released. So I guess D is not considered a "new major systems language". > > "By mid 2008 the language was mostly designed and the implementation > (compiler, run-time) starting to work." --from the Go Tech talk slides > > --anders
I was using D well before late 2006 (and never had any sort of special non-public access). >From some of the stuff I saw on the tutorial page, I noticed a few things that seemed like they could easily have been inspired from D. Of course, being a longtime D user, that "no new systems programming language has been developed in the last ten years" kinda pisses me off...Although not as pissed as I'll be if the connection with google causes its use and popularity to soar past D...from the example code it looks like D but with a really garbled and annoying syntax.
