On Tuesday, 31 July 2018 at 18:21:15 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
What I'm doing is preparing a submission to HOPL on the origins of D. There's an emphasis on accuracy, references, correct dates, correct attributions, and correct credit to the right people.
I'd put together a timeline for my LDC talk at DConf 2013: http://dconf.org/2013/talks/nadlinger.pdf
I don't have my old notes with the NG post links handy, but the relevant announcements shouldn't be hard to find knowing the year – you'd want to cross-check them anyway.
The Git history (which includes all the old SVN commits) should also be handy. As Iain mentioned, the first commit to the SVN repo was on September 1, 2007, which seems to have already compiled quite a bit of D code, judging from the test suite.
— David
