Origins of the D Programming Language

[Max Haughton]

On Sunday, 1 September 2019 at 00:03:20 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> We have made good progress on our submission, in particular 
> Mike got to use his literary gift some more. Our latest draft 
> is here:
>
> https://erdani.com/hopl2020-draft2.pdf
>
> We would love some feedback, corrections, and historical 
> details. Thanks!
>
>
> Andrei
>
> On 11/30/18 2:34 PM, 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)

Ranges are mentioned a few times, but I don't think what they are 
is explained. If there is space it would be worth defining the 
basic ranges and explaining the evolution from iterators to ranges