On Wednesday, 17 January 2024 at 00:44:06 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 1/16/2024 12:49 PM, Les De Ridder wrote:
>> Good luck to both projects. I wonder what my go-to compiled language
>> will be in a couple years.
>
> Steel only gets tempered with fire and hammer :-)

What do they expect from Walter! To take the hammer and hammer a piece of iron (openD) in view? Walter has a responsibility, there is a foundation he heads. Undoubtedly, this project will also contribute to D, but D will live within the foundation forever.

SDB@79

D is Walter's invention, his baby and life-time project. It's his legacy to this world.

It's what Walter Bright will be remembered for in the future world, after his death, on Wikipedia etc.
His contribution to the world of programming languages and compilers.

Some people just don't get it. Some specific people will not be remembered at all, nobody cares if they ever lived.
They didn't contribute anything useful to the world at all, so they will be forgotten forever.

It is how it is.

On Sunday, 21 January 2024 at 04:45:57 UTC, Danilo wrote:
> D is Walter's invention, his baby and life-time project. It's

Walter Bright will probably be in the league of Knuth and Niklaus Wirth, when it  comes to the contribution to compilers and programming languages.

Nobody will care about 'Ruppe', 'Danilo', and 'grim'...

On Sunday, 21 January 2024 at 05:13:54 UTC, Danilo wrote:
> On Sunday, 21 January 2024 at 04:45:57 UTC, Danilo wrote:
>> D is Walter's invention, his baby and life-time project. It's
>
> Walter Bright will probably be in the league of Knuth and Niklaus Wirth, when it  comes to the contribution to compilers and programming languages.
>
> Nobody will care about 'Ruppe', 'Danilo', and 'grim'...

Should we all chip in and build him a statue? Maybe walter stood ontop of pile of old computers holding a shining D-Man aloft,

Maybe with everyone else prostrate on the ground beneath him?

Im sure he'd love that ;-)

On Sunday, 21 January 2024 at 04:45:57 UTC, Danilo wrote:
> D is Walter's invention, his baby and life-time project. It's his legacy to this world.
>
> It's what Walter Bright will be remembered for in the future world, after his death, on Wikipedia etc.
> His contribution to the world of programming languages and compilers.

I think that outside the programming world, most people actually knows him because: Empire (https://www.classicempire.com)

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Matheus.