Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!daveb
From: daveb@geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: The D Programming Language (was: Still more new operators)
Summary: Ok, can we post D?
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Date: 12 Feb 88 15:30:45 GMT
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Posted: Fri Feb 12 10:30:45 1988
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In article <243@eagle_snax.UUCP> gpollice@eagle_snax.UUCP ( Sun ECD Software) writes:
| Actually, the last project course at the late Wang Institute developed
| a compiler and editor for the D language called Turbo-D.  The D language
| we used was taken from Dijkstra's guarded command language in his book
| "A Discipline of Programming."  ...
| The language had some other features, including non-determinate selection
| of guards for loops and conditional statements.  The project was fun, the
| language was useful, and the compiler was fast.

  Can you find out if it can be posted?  I'd like a (V)HLL like the
Dijkstra language to write hard, complex but non-machine-related
things in.  A (M)HLL like P would be nice too (:-)).

 --dave
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