Why I chose D over Ada and Eiffel

[Walter Bright]

On 8/20/2013 1:49 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 8/20/13 11:32 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> 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.
>
> http://forum.dlang.org/thread/ga46ok$2s77$1@digitalmars.com

Awesome, thanks for digging that up!