On Saturday, 10 October 2015 at 06:15:10 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
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.
If I implied that I believe that D ranges were based on
Boost.Range, then I apologize. I don't believe that. I suspect
(but don't know) that ranges in D were independently invented
without knowledge of the long history of them in C++. Which is
fine except for the claims that C++ is playing catch-up. It's not.
Anyhow, it's best for us all to focus on doing good work
instead of pettily fighting for irrelevant credit.
I only jumped in when I saw some disparagement of C++ and my work
which (IMO) was both
petty and wrong. I would very much like to drop this and get back
to productive work.
\e
