[OT] clueless about history
Georg Wrede
georg.wrede at nospam.org
Sun Nov 19 06:37:31 PST 2006
What do these have in common?
- Existing D features
- templates
- OO by struct like objects
- exceptions
- automatic memory management
- New features proposed intermittently on this list
- yield statement
- multiple assignment x,y = foo();
- iterators
All this comes actually from an ancient computing language called CLU.
Barbara Liskov and her students created this language in the mid-1970s
at the MIT.
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