On Monday, 16 April 2012 at 13:31:32 UTC, Somedude wrote:
> Although there was very few D contestants (only 15 out of 18365
> contestants used D), D scored number 1.
>
> http://go-hero.net/jam/?repost2012
>
> It was only the qualification round, and admittedly, 3 out of 4 problems
> were not extremely interesting.
>
> Still, congrats to hos.lyric, - whoever that is (Kenji ?) -, who managed
> to submit a perfect solution in 1h55, more than 46 mn before the rank 2.

Yeah! hos.lyric is a great coder.
He is a university student, not Kenji.

On Monday, 16 April 2012 at 14:02:21 UTC, bearophile wrote:
> Somedude:
>> Although there was very few D contestants (only 15 out of 18365
>> contestants used D), D scored number 1.
>
> This is very good advertisement for D.
>
> A D user (group) has to reach a good score in the ICFP Programming Contest too :-)
>
> And why is D so popular in Japan? :-)

We supports D newbies in many scenes.
See this reply http://forum.dlang.org/thread/CAJ85NXCWkmo0y8cSZz+mtq+x3Kxv7-eJ6Gw4XDier=E+Ti-q-Q@mail.gmail.com#post-xkrxexychkfodzrfgkgh:40forum.dlang.org

In my personal activities, I talked about D in some meetups,
e.g. D Kaigi, RubyKaigi, Kernel/VM, Boost.meetup, LL Nagoya, and etc.

In addition, kinaba sometimes talked about D and
wrote the blog titled "D for contest programming" recently.

Le 18/04/2012 12:16, Masahiro Nakagawa a écrit :
> On Monday, 16 April 2012 at 14:02:21 UTC, bearophile wrote:
>> Somedude:
>>> Although there was very few D contestants (only 15 out of 18365 contestants used D), D scored number 1.
>>
>> This is very good advertisement for D.
>>
>> A D user (group) has to reach a good score in the ICFP Programming
>> Contest too :-)
>>
>> And why is D so popular in Japan? :-)
> 
> We supports D newbies in many scenes.
> See this reply
> http://forum.dlang.org/thread/CAJ85NXCWkmo0y8cSZz+mtq+x3Kxv7-eJ6Gw4XDier=E+Ti-q-Q@mail.gmail.com#post-xkrxexychkfodzrfgkgh:40forum.dlang.org
> 
> 
> In my personal activities, I talked about D in some meetups,
> e.g. D Kaigi, RubyKaigi, Kernel/VM, Boost.meetup, LL Nagoya, and etc.
> 
> In addition, kinaba sometimes talked about D and
> wrote the blog titled "D for contest programming" recently.

That's cool, there should be a translation of this blog post. It may attract some more coders to D. :)