Origins of the D Programming Language

[Nicholas Wilson]

On Friday, 7 December 2018 at 10:08:04 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky 
wrote:
> On Friday, 30 November 2018 at 19:34:58 UTC, Andrei 
> Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Over the past few months, Walter, Mike, and myself have been 
>> working on a draft submission for the HOPL 2020 conference 
>> (History of Programming Languages).
>>
>> The submission proceeds in several stages. Currently we've 
>> been through one round of preliminary review. Here is the 
>> current draft:
>>
>> http://erdani.com/hopl2020-draft.pdf
>>
>> We'd appreciate feedback and additional historical details.
>
> Maybe already pointed out in the thread but just in case
>
> line 449 has bogus factorial implementation:
>
> foreach (i; 0 .. n) result *= i;
>
> should probably be
>
> foreach (i; 1 .. n) result *= i;

It has, it also bought up the need for unit tests(!) ;)