On 03/06/2016 2:17 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
A lot of us, myself included, have been very critical of Andrei lately
but I want to list of the excellent work he has done over the years:
First, early D was very different to D of today. Andrei changed that,
for the better. He's a genius of innovation with templates and good at
getting to the bottom of generic code.
The Range concept is excellent, the logical extension of iterators like
slices are to pointers, and std.algorithm is generally brilliant.
Many of the patterns we take for granted in D, from templates in general
to conversion and literals on top of them, to ranges and algorithms,
were principally designed and implemented by Andrei.
std.experimental.allocator is very well done and the Design by
Introspection is not just smart insight to the generic programming
problem, but actually explored and explained in such a way that we can
hook onto it.
His talks and writing are amusing and informative, and his dedication
unquestionable.
Andrei Alexandrescu is a very good, innovative programmer and writer who
invents and explains things that others can't even consider.
We're lucky to have him with us!
Wooow, go Andrei!
