Origins of the D Programming Language

[rikki cattermole]

Some Lisp (based and implementations) languages offer access to compiler 
at CTFE with AST manipulation. But it is pretty cludgy.

#D freenode was created: [18:29:43] Channel was created at Sun Nov 26 
19:42:43 2006
We normally sit around 110 but pre spam was around ~160 people (although 
most are inactive).

Another mistake, dmd-fe wasn't a library from day one. This has hurt us 
a lot.

Lastly, good D code is what I would call ML family not C. Even if the 
syntax is C based. Which makes D a combination of ML and C families.