[FRIAM] O'Reilly -- The History of Programming Languages

[Owen Densmore]

BTW: we could likely try D fairly easily, its part of GCC:
   http://dgcc.sourceforge.net/

They call it GDC, but I doubt that signifies any interesting  
difference from the Digital Mars version:
   http://www.digitalmars.com/d/dcompiler.html
.. and the gnu version looks to have a wider distribution.

The FAQ on DM sez that the gnu version integrated the DM front end  
into GCC, so it looks like they are quite compatible.  It also points  
to DWT, a port of SWT from Java to D:
   http://www.dsource.org/projects/dwt/
I wonder if this suggests Java <> D ports are not that difficult?

 From the dgcc site:
   GDC works with GCC versions 3.3.x, 3.4.x, and 4.0.x.
     * Linux (tested on Fedora Core 5 x86 and PowerPC)
     * Mac OS X 10.3.x, 10.4.x
     * FreeBSD 5.2.1
     * Cygwin
     * MinGW
     * AIX (tested on 5.1)

I bring all this up because we could try it out, possibly on existing  
C++ programs modified for D.

     -- Owen