"Anders F Björklund" <a...@algonet.se> wrote in message news:hde8r9$134...@digitalmars.com... > Nick Sabalausky wrote: > >>> I meant the 1.0 release, in case that wasn't obvious ? >>> The D project was started ten years ago (1999), I think. >> >> Ah. Since 1.0 was just an arbitrary stake-in-the-ground some time after D >> was already perfectly usable,so I've never thought of 1.0's release as >> being anything special. > > Sure, I think the "official" web site http://d-programming-language.org/ > and the 1.0 release that followed was mostly to generate some interest ? > > I guess the next line-in-the-sand will be the book release, and whatever > version of DMD 2.x (compiler and specification) that will come with it ? >
Perhaps, but this time around there seems to be a major effort to get as many details as possible worked out before drawing that line. (Yay! :) )