[Semi OT] Language for Game Development talk

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On Friday, 26 September 2014 at 18:46:19 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> I wrote a C++ compiler in 1987. Nobody had ever heard of 
> exceptions.

Lisp had exceptions in the 60s. In the 80s exception handling was 
fashionable in language design. :)

> Bjarne's 1986 "The C++ Programming Language" does not mention 
> RAII or exceptions, but does say on pg. 158:
>
> "Calling constructors and destructors for static objects serves 
> an extremely important function in C++. It is the way to ensure 
> proper initialization and cleanup of data structures in 
> libraries."

I would not call this RAII, but Simula67 did have the block 
prefixing idiom which I presume Stroustrup knew about.

http://www.olejohandahl.info/papers/Birth-of-S.pdf

RAII is a natural extension of block prefixing IMO. BETA, the 
follow up language to Simula, was developed in the 70s/80s and 
support RAII-style prefixing through the "inner"-statement. You 
can probably find many RAII-like idioms in various languages if 
you dig back in time, though.