Origins of the D Programming Language

[Arun Chandrasekaran]

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)

D's default thread local is worth documenting (and may be 
concurrency by message passing doll supporting shared memory 
model).

std.parallelism is worth a mention too.