[OT] Things I like about Andrei

[rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d]

On 03/06/2016 2:17 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> A lot of us, myself included, have been very critical of Andrei lately
> but I want to list of the excellent work he has done over the years:
>
> First, early D was very different to D of today. Andrei changed that,
> for the better. He's a genius of innovation with templates and good at
> getting to the bottom of generic code.
>
> The Range concept is excellent, the logical extension of iterators like
> slices are to pointers, and std.algorithm is generally brilliant.
>
> Many of the patterns we take for granted in D, from templates in general
> to conversion and literals on top of them, to ranges and algorithms,
> were principally designed and implemented by Andrei.
>
> std.experimental.allocator is very well done and the Design by
> Introspection is not just smart insight to the generic programming
> problem, but actually explored and explained in such a way that we can
> hook onto it.
>
> His talks and writing are amusing and informative, and his dedication
> unquestionable.
>
> Andrei Alexandrescu is a very good, innovative programmer and writer who
> invents and explains things that others can't even consider.
>
> We're lucky to have him with us!

Wooow, go Andrei!