Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!daveb
From: daveb@geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: the D programnming language
Summary: Start the mailing list, please.
Message-ID: <2790@geac.UUCP>
Date: 30 May 88 14:26:24 GMT
Article-I.D.: geac.2790
Posted: Mon May 30 10:26:24 1988
References: <6622@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> <4149@haddock.ISC.COM> <6206@sigi.Colorado.EDU> <4186@haddock.ISC.COM> <6293@sigi.Colorado.EDU> <7972@brl-smoke.ARPA> <6316@sigi.Colorado.EDU>
Reply-To: daveb@geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
Organization: The Geac "Smaller and Simpler" Department.
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|In article <7972@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
| I've been thinking a bit about what C could be like were it to be
| designed today.  I think it could be made noticeably smaller with
| cleaner semantics (for example: strict, extensible typing; reserved
| name spaces).  Lots of stuff that people have been suggesting for
| "D" could be left out and a better language would result. 

In article <6316@sigi.Colorado.EDU> swarbric@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Frank Swarbrick) writes:
|I dunno, maybe someone might like to start a D mailing list where people could
|at least talk about this?  

I agree strongly, having used "denatured" c variants as design
languages...

And I'd like to be on the list.

--dave ((:-}) c-b
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