Why I chose D over Ada and Eiffel

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 8/20/13 11:32 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 8/20/2013 11:17 AM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
>> On 20/08/13 19:47, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> This style of programming has been around at least since the Unix
>>> "pipes and
>>> filters" model. It also appears as C#'s LINQ programming style.
>>>
>>> However, LINQ and Clojure were not direct influences on D's ranges.
>>
>> Since Clojure is more recent than D, and AFAICT its sequences API
>> seems to have
>> arrived in later versions of the language, I wondered if the influence
>> had been
>> in the opposite direction.
>>
>> When were ranges first introduced in D?
>>
>
> Eh, I'd have to go back through the github history :-(
>
> The idea goes way back. Matthew Wilson and I were thinking about how to
> do C++ STL-like iterators, which were based on a pointer abstraction. I
> thought it was natural for D to do it as an array abstraction. There are
> some posts about it in the n.g. somewhere. The idea languished until
> Andrei joined us and figured out how it should work, and ranges were born.

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Andrei