Shout out to D at cppcon, when talkign about ranges.

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 10/5/2015 7:31 PM, Eric Niebler wrote:
 > The design of the D ranges and algorithms owe quite a lot to C++, and I've heard
 > Andrei say as much.

D ranges owe plenty to C++ iterators and algorithms, no doubt. Boost ranges, I 
can't agree.

 > Stepanov did the hard work of defining common algorithms in
 > terms of iterators of different strength. Given that starting point, ranges of
 > different strength are an "obvious" next step that many people thought up
 > independently. D took it one way and C++ went another.

It seems obvious in retrospect, I agree. But looking at the early Boost ranges, 
they didn't take the obvious step :-)

 > When designing my range library, I looked at all the prior art available to me
 > including D ranges and decided D's path was not the right one for C++. My work
 > is based on Boost.Range. I only posted here to clear up what appeared to me to
 > be confusion about that.