https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3386323

Many, many thanks to Mike Parker and Andrei Alexandrescu for their endless hours spent fixing the mess I originally wrote.

On 6/12/2020 8:16 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3386323
> 
> Many, many thanks to Mike Parker and Andrei Alexandrescu for their endless hours spent fixing the mess I originally wrote.


https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/h7vra4/the_complete_hopl_iv_proceedings_history_of_apl_c/

On Saturday, 13 June 2020 at 03:16:05 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3386323
>
> Many, many thanks to Mike Parker and Andrei Alexandrescu for their endless hours spent fixing the mess I originally wrote.

Read the paper. D is a huge achievement by any account.

Regards

On Saturday, 13 June 2020 at 03:16:05 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3386323
>
> Many, many thanks to Mike Parker and Andrei Alexandrescu for their endless hours spent fixing the mess I originally wrote.

Congratulations!  It's really nice to see this in final published form. :-)

On Saturday, 13 June 2020 at 03:16:05 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3386323
>
> Many, many thanks to Mike Parker and Andrei Alexandrescu for their endless hours spent fixing the mess I originally wrote.

Thanks to COVID-19, access is free through June 30.

I very much enjoyed reading this paper. Thanks!

-- Bastiaan.

On Saturday, 13 June 2020 at 03:16:05 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3386323
>
> Many, many thanks to Mike Parker and Andrei Alexandrescu for their endless hours spent fixing the mess I originally wrote.

Interesting history!  Did Eric Niebler lose interest in D?  I didn't realize he was involved early on.

On Saturday, 13 June 2020 at 03:16:05 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3386323
>
> Many, many thanks to Mike Parker and Andrei Alexandrescu for their endless hours spent fixing the mess I originally wrote.

Great read.  Many thanks for the time spent writing out the origin story of a wonderful language.

On Saturday, 13 June 2020 at 03:16:05 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> Many, many thanks to Mike Parker and Andrei Alexandrescu for their endless hours spent fixing the mess I originally wrote.

It turned out great!

On Saturday, 13 June 2020 at 03:16:05 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3386323
>
> Many, many thanks to Mike Parker and Andrei Alexandrescu for their endless hours spent fixing the mess I originally wrote.

Many, thanks to you, too!
Just found the time to read it (again).

What I think is worth mentioning as additional milestones, is the setup of code.dlang.org (DUB >1800 packages now) and the online tutorial - Dlang Tour: tour.dlang.org with the embedded D compiler.

On Saturday, 13 June 2020 at 03:16:05 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3386323
>
> Many, many thanks to Mike Parker and Andrei Alexandrescu for their endless hours spent fixing the mess I originally wrote.

Thank you. Printed and started reading today before work. A lot of interesting insights about the rationale behind design decisions. For a non C/C++ programmer, this helps me better understand D and it's close relationship with these languages. Cool stuff.