Re: Origins of the D Programming Language now published by ACM!
On Saturday, 20 June 2020 at 22:12:21 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 6/20/2020 2:59 PM, Bill Baxter wrote: Whoa! Page 23 -- a wild Bill Baxter appears! That was unexpected. :-D --bb So many contributors - we tried hard to credit where things came from. Nice paper. It would be nice to have a graphical timeline with most important additions/dips :) Andrea
Re: Origins of the D Programming Language now published by ACM!
On 6/20/2020 2:59 PM, Bill Baxter wrote: Whoa! Page 23 -- a wild Bill Baxter appears! That was unexpected. :-D --bb So many contributors - we tried hard to credit where things came from.
Re: Origins of the D Programming Language now published by ACM!
Whoa! Page 23 -- a wild Bill Baxter appears! That was unexpected. :-D --bb On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 9:00 PM Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce < digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote: > 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. >
Re: Origins of the D Programming Language now published by ACM!
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.
Re: Origins of the D Programming Language now published by ACM!
On 6/15/2020 8:49 AM, Ben Jones wrote: Did Eric Niebler lose interest in D? I didn't realize he was involved early on. He never was particularly interested in D, he just liked the camaraderie of us getting together and talking about language design, as we liked it too.
Re: Origins of the D Programming Language now published by ACM!
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.
Re: Origins of the D Programming Language now published by ACM!
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. Many, thanks to you, too! Just found the time to read it (again). What I think is worth mentioning as additional milestones, is the setup of code.dlang.org (DUB >1800 packages now) and the online tutorial - Dlang Tour: tour.dlang.org with the embedded D compiler.
Re: Origins of the D Programming Language now published by ACM!
On Saturday, 13 June 2020 at 03:16:05 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Many, many thanks to Mike Parker and Andrei Alexandrescu for their endless hours spent fixing the mess I originally wrote. It turned out great!
Re: Origins of the D Programming Language now published by ACM!
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. Great read. Many thanks for the time spent writing out the origin story of a wonderful language.
Re: Origins of the D Programming Language now published by ACM!
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. Interesting history! Did Eric Niebler lose interest in D? I didn't realize he was involved early on.
Re: Origins of the D Programming Language now published by ACM!
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. Thanks to COVID-19, access is free through June 30. I very much enjoyed reading this paper. Thanks! -- Bastiaan.
Re: Origins of the D Programming Language now published by ACM!
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. Congratulations! It's really nice to see this in final published form. :-)
Re: Origins of the D Programming Language now published by ACM!
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. Read the paper. D is a huge achievement by any account. Regards
Re: Origins of the D Programming Language now published by ACM!
On 6/12/2020 8:16 PM, 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. https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/h7vra4/the_complete_hopl_iv_proceedings_history_of_apl_c/
Origins of the D Programming Language now published by ACM!
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.
