Origins of the D Programming Language

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On 12/4/18 2:58 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> Not using version control was a very unwise thing to do, though I do
> sympathise that back in the day, there weren't many good version control
> systems out there, plus the awareness of the benefits of version control
> wasn't that widespread.

I think it was just that the sole (or few?) maintainer didn't need to 
have it to get stuff done.

Just for fun I went back and looked, dsource.org shows 0.50 as the first 
first put into (at least public) source control: 
http://dsource.org/projects/dmd/browser/trunk/src?rev=5

Of course, that's just the front end. Phobos may have had earlier 
history as I think it was more of a distributed effort.

-Steve