Our HOPL IV submission has been accepted!

[Walter Bright]

On 2/28/2020 5:00 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Walter, Mike, and I are happy to announce that our paper submission "Origins of 
> the D Programming Language" has been accepted at the HOPL IV (History of 
> Programming Languages) conference.
> 
> https://hopl4.sigplan.org/track/hopl-4-papers
> 
> Getting a HOPL paper in is quite difficult, and an important milestone for the D 
> language. We'd like to thank the D community which was instrumental in putting 
> the D language on the map.
> 
> The HOPL IV conference will take place in London right before DConf. With regard 
> to travel, right now Covid-19 fears are on everybody's mind; however, we are 
> hopeful that between now and then the situation will improve.

What was interesting was we had to go though all the changelogs, emails, and 
n.g. postings to pin down dates, motivations, and justifications. A bit of what 
happened didn't happen quite the way I remember it! :-) This is pretty common, 
something to think about if you're ever a juror and hearing eyewitness testimony 
on things that happened 10-20 years ago.