Walter and I are planning major marketing moves, for which there's a necessity to describe my relationship with D succinctly. People routinely introduce me as "co-creator of D" and I need to explain "well, D had already been created when I joined but I worked on a number of features" etc.

Although D looks quite different now than it was in 2006, the "creation" act only happens once, so "co-creator" is inaccurate and shifts credit inappropriately. Last thing you want in PR is someone in the crowd to go "wait, but you didn't create it" and the next-to-last thing is to need to define the relationship between you and what you're selling as "well, it's complicated".

So we mulled over this for a while and we decided to go with "D Language Architect". I'll use that henceforth. Walter will remain of course the "D Language Creator".

No need to call me that way :o).


Thanks,

Andrei

On 12/11/15 1:26 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Walter and I are planning major marketing moves, for which there's a
> necessity to describe my relationship with D succinctly. People
> routinely introduce me as "co-creator of D" and I need to explain "well,
> D had already been created when I joined but I worked on a number of
> features" etc.
>
> Although D looks quite different now than it was in 2006, the "creation"
> act only happens once, so "co-creator" is inaccurate and shifts credit
> inappropriately. Last thing you want in PR is someone in the crowd to go
> "wait, but you didn't create it" and the next-to-last thing is to need
> to define the relationship between you and what you're selling as "well,
> it's complicated".
>
> So we mulled over this for a while and we decided to go with "D Language
> Architect". I'll use that henceforth. Walter will remain of course the
> "D Language Creator".
>
> No need to call me that way :o).
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrei

So I take it, it's time for a "The D programming language and your future" book?

Would be awesome to define what is wanted for D3, along with project goals ext. in it. That way we can incrementally work towards it in D2.

LeanPub would be awesome for this. Add on having it on Github so to accept changes. Also means that you don't have to release any time soon.

Anyway, hello big A(rchitect)!

On Wednesday, 11 November 2015 at 12:27:00 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> So we mulled over this for a while and we decided to go with "D Language Architect". I'll use that henceforth. Walter will remain of course the "D Language Creator".

So you are AAA now, Architect Andrei Alexandrescu.

On Wednesday, 11 November 2015 at 16:46:52 UTC, qznc wrote:
> On Wednesday, 11 November 2015 at 12:27:00 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> So we mulled over this for a while and we decided to go with "D Language Architect". I'll use that henceforth. Walter will remain of course the "D Language Creator".
>
> So you are AAA now, Architect Andrei Alexandrescu.

Has anybodv ever read this book? I can only recommend it:

http://www.amazon.com/Architect-Bee-Human-Technology-Relationship/dp/0949874000/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1447272861&sr=8-3&keywords=architect+or+bee

Or the revised edition

http://www.amazon.com/Architect-Bee-Technology-Current-affairs/dp/0701207698/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1447272861&sr=8-2&keywords=architect+or+bee

Architect or B? No, architect and D! (Bad bad pun, I know)

On Wednesday, 11 November 2015 at 12:27:00 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Walter and I are planning major marketing moves, for which there's a necessity to describe my relationship with D succinctly. People routinely introduce me as "co-creator of D" and I need to explain "well, D had already been created when I joined but I worked on a number of features" etc.
>
> Although D looks quite different now than it was in 2006, the "creation" act only happens once, so "co-creator" is inaccurate and shifts credit inappropriately. Last thing you want in PR is someone in the crowd to go "wait, but you didn't create it" and the next-to-last thing is to need to define the relationship between you and what you're selling as "well, it's complicated".
>
> So we mulled over this for a while and we decided to go with "D Language Architect". I'll use that henceforth. Walter will remain of course the "D Language Creator".
>
> No need to call me that way :o).
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrei

Excellent, Andrei!

And what a timely coincidence, since the other day I saw "co-creator" and thought less than favorably about you for it. But D Language Architect is excellent! Kudos!

On 11/11/2015 04:26 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

> we decided to go with "D Language Architect". I'll use that
> henceforth.

I've just used it when talking with a colleague today. :)

Ali