Origins of the D Programming Language

[jmh530]

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)

The timeline does not have when work started on D 2.0 and when 
the first release was or what have you.