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

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 10/10/15 12:58 AM, Eric Niebler wrote:
> To be honest, this whole conversation is kind of funny to me. It
> reminds me of the Bugs Bunny cartoon where Marvin the Martian plants
> his flag on Earth and says, "I claim this planet in the name of
> [Digital] Mars!" We Earthlings respectfully disagree. :-)

Only it's the other way around, which makes the matter quite ironic. You 
wrote:

> P.S. I see lots of people here assuming that C++ is playing catch-up
> to D because D has ranges and C++ doesn't yet. That is ignoring the
> long history of ranges in C++. C++ got ranges in the form of the
> Boost.Range library by Thorsten Ottoson sometime in the early 00's.
> Andrei didn't implement D's ranges until many years after. The ranges
> idea is older than dirt. It's not a D invention.

I think it would be a bit of a stretch to describe D ranges as 
derivative of Boost ranges.

Anyhow, it's best for us all to focus on doing good work instead of 
pettily fighting for irrelevant credit.


Andrei