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[Georg Wrede]

Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
> clayasaurus wrote:
>>Sweeney has expressed interest in a new language so I don't think it
>>would be too far fetched. No harm in trying, at least.

Let's hope he's unconsciously talking about D! :-)

> Do the search "sweeney site:digitalmars.com" at Google, and you'll find many
> posts from him in the oooooold D newsgroup, about 5 years ago.

The first thing I stumbled upon was a thread called Persistance (sic).

> Fri, 17 Aug 2001 21:33:01 -0400 "Tim Sweeney" <tim xx epicgames.com>  writes:
> If a language has complete support for introspection (discovering all fields
> of objects at runtime), then it's easy for users to implement arbitrary
> persistence algorithms, such as XML or various binary formats. So a desire
> for persistence can be simplified into a more general desire for complete
> (perhaps Java-style) introspection support.
> 
> -Tim

And later in the thread:

> Fri, 9 Nov 2001 21:12:31 -0800 "Walter" <walter xx digitalmars.com>  writes:
> I intend for D to support introspection. It makes garbage collection more
> effective, as well as making persistance possible. It also makes it easier
> for debuggers <g>.