Emerging Languages Conference next week!

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Andrei Alexandrescu" <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote in message 
news:i2cnai$hgt$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>> I'm speaking at OSCON July 22 at 5:20 about D 
>>> http://www.oscon.com/oscon2010/public/schedule/grid/2010-07-22 See you 
>>> there!
>>
>> Inforworld writeup on it mentions D on page 2:
>>
>> http://www.infoworld.com/d/developer-world/mirah-brings-ruby-niceties-java-430
>
> Nice but short. I hate they made you "co-inventor", possibly implying that 
> I'd be another one; whenever I have a chance I want to acknowledge you as 
> the inventor. I can qualify at most as sorcerer's apprentice.
>

It's always bugged me when people use the term "invent" in relaton to a 
programming language. It's like saying that a musician "invented" a song, or 
that Mark Twain "invented" a book. Wrong word.