Origins of the D Programming Language

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 12/3/18 6:42 PM, Q. Schroll wrote:
> On Friday, 30 November 2018 at 19:34:58 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Over the past few months, Walter, Mike, and myself have been working 
>> on a draft submission for the HOPL 2020 conference (History of 
>> Programming Languages).
>>
>> The submission proceeds in several stages. Currently we've been 
>> through one round of preliminary review. Here is the current draft:
>>
>> http://erdani.com/hopl2020-draft.pdf
>>
>> We'd appreciate feedback and additional historical details.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Andrei (on behalf of Walter and Mike as well)
> 
> ulong factorial(ulong n) {
>    ulong result = 1;
>    foreach (i; 0 .. n) result *= i; // off by one.
>    return result;
> }
> 
> Even the best make mistake ;)

Ouch, thanks.