Origins of the D Programming Language now published by ACM!

[Walter Bright]

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.