the D programnming language

David Collier-Brown daveb at geac.UUCP
Tue May 31 00:26:24 AEST 1988


|In article <7972 at brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
| I've been thinking a bit about what C could be like were it to be
| designed today.  I think it could be made noticeably smaller with
| cleaner semantics (for example: strict, extensible typing; reserved
| name spaces).  Lots of stuff that people have been suggesting for
| "D" could be left out and a better language would result. 

In article <6316 at sigi.Colorado.EDU> swarbric at tramp.Colorado.EDU (Frank Swarbrick) writes:
|I dunno, maybe someone might like to start a D mailing list where people could
|at least talk about this?  

I agree strongly, having used "denatured" c variants as design
languages...

And I'd like to be on the list.

--dave ((:-}) c-b
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