The D Programming Language by Andrei Alexandrescu

[Denton Cockburn]

On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 22:22:10 -0800, Robert Fraser wrote:

> eao197 wrote:
>> On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 04:48:40 +0300, Walter Bright
>> <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Denton Cockburn wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 12:35:41 -0800, Walter Bright wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Andrei has announced on his web site http://erdani.org/ that he's
>>>>> working on the book "The D Programming Language" due out in October
>>>>> of 1998.
>>>>  With a release date of a year away, I'm guessing he'll be putting
>>>> forward the new things in D 2.0?
>>>>  These two books will be really good for D.
>>>> Now the D-volution begins. (That still makes sense, you're remaking
>>>> C++ properly)
>>>
>>> The idea is that the book will represent D 2.0.
>> 
>> Could we expect that D 2.0 will be stable enough at Oct 2008 and there
>> won't be new compatibility-breaking changes in the language?
>> 
>> 
> I hope it isn't.
> 
> I like the fact that D is constantly evolving. Certainly, there's a bit
> of feature creep here & there, but overall it gives the feeling that D
> is certainly bridging the gap between programming paradigms and
> presenting itself as a modern language.

While true and agreeable, we do need a point at which D should be stable 
enough to have another official release (2.0).

Then the new development branch can be 3.0

Thinking about it though, it is kinda weird to have 2.0 come out after 
having worked with 2.00(1-8).