October 2004 Meeting

Topic:

The D Programming Language

Speaker:

Walter Bright

When:

Wednesday, October 13, 2004
Presentation @ 7:00pm

Where:

Humongous Entertainment
3855 Monte Villa Parkway
Bothell, Washington 98021
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Description:

The D Programming Language is the result of many years of experience with compilers and languages, especially C++. C++ is a powerful, groundbreaking language. D comes from looking at what works in C++, what doesn't work, and refactoring the language to take advantage of hindsight in how things can work better. D adds in proven capabilities from other modern languages that are sorely missed in C++. This talk is an overview of D - what it is, why it is that way, and how it works out in practice.

About the Speaker:

Walter Bright's first major program was the groundbreaking wargame Empire. He then became interested in compilers and computer languages. He's written compilers for ABEL, Pascal, C, C++, Java, Javascript and now D. His extensive experience writing C++ compilers and well over a decade being on the front lines of doing C++ customer support is an ideal background for improving on the language.