D mentioned on Rust discussions site

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Thu May 21 07:40:11 UTC 2020


On 5/21/2020 12:02 AM, Araq wrote:
> On Wednesday, 20 May 2020 at 21:30:16 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>> Languages that are used over long periods of time evolve greatly after 1.0. 
>> Fortran, Basic, C++, Java, Perl, Pascal, Python, C#, D, etc. C is a notable 
>> exception.
> 
> Before Ansi C came along, C lacked function prototypes and "const". I think an 
> Ansi Standard came way later after "C version 1.0", whatever that really was.

I know that well. It's a glacial change compared with what has happened in other 
languages. C version 1.0 would be K+R C, which was properly standardized in C89, 
and handful of minor improvements came with C99.


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