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What do you mean?

• jacquesm 10y ago
  D is a successor to (you've guessed it) 'C'. If you've ever used Zortech C++ then you've used Walter's product.
• WalterBright 10y ago
  To improve C++, I'd need to write proposal papers to the committee, mount a campaign to get it accepted, attend all the committee meetings, and wait years for the next standard to get through the process. With D, I could implement it and ship it in a few days or weeks. Of course, I could (and did) add features to the C++ compiler I developed. But I soon discovered that nobody was interested in using features that were not part of the standard - even the people who proposed the features would not use them. Over time, many of the improvements put in D found their way years later into the C++ standard.
  • WalterBright 10y ago
    Of course, D having a much larger community these days means that improvements take longer from conception to ship. More community means more process.