On 10/10/15 12:58 AM, Eric Niebler wrote:
To be honest, this whole conversation is kind of funny to me. It reminds me of the Bugs Bunny cartoon where Marvin the Martian plants his flag on Earth and says, "I claim this planet in the name of [Digital] Mars!" We Earthlings respectfully disagree. :-)
Only it's the other way around, which makes the matter quite ironic. You wrote:
P.S. I see lots of people here assuming that C++ is playing catch-up to D because D has ranges and C++ doesn't yet. That is ignoring the long history of ranges in C++. C++ got ranges in the form of the Boost.Range library by Thorsten Ottoson sometime in the early 00's. Andrei didn't implement D's ranges until many years after. The ranges idea is older than dirt. It's not a D invention.
I think it would be a bit of a stretch to describe D ranges as derivative of Boost ranges.
Anyhow, it's best for us all to focus on doing good work instead of pettily fighting for irrelevant credit.
Andrei
