Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

BBasile via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Fri Aug 28 11:02:01 PDT 2015


On Thursday, 27 August 2015 at 20:29:49 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic 
wrote:
> On 8/27/15, BBasile via Digitalmars-d-announce 
> <digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com> wrote:
>> On Thursday, 27 August 2015 at 18:03:37 UTC, Colin wrote:
>>> On Thursday, 27 August 2015 at 16:01:54 UTC, BBasile wrote:
>>>> On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei 
>>>> Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>> That's courageous, particularly past 50 yo. It's a different 
>>>> culture, past 50 yo in Europe people choose security, but in 
>>>> USA, past 50 yo some people still take the risk to try 
>>>> something new. Awesome.
>>>
>>> Andrei is past 50? Doesn't look it!
>>
>> And Walter who was involved in the 80's in the team who made 
>> MS DOS... do you think he's 20 yo ?
>
> Hmm.. ? This is the first time I've heard of this. He's one of 
> the very first people who have developed a C++ compiler, but 
> MS-DOS?

Right, this is an error. The day i've read his bio here 
http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/how-i-came-to-write-d/240165322 I should be very **tired**. "I found myself part of a programming team developing software for MS-DOS". This is the origin of the error. Sorry I didn't mean to spread bullshits...



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