Walter wrote:
<snip>
> The earliest dates on Sun's D public documentation are November 2003. The D
> spec first appeared publicly in August 2001, and appeared on slashdot that
> month. I'd been working specifically on D since late 1999, though D as a
> successor to C has been talked about since at least 1988.
<snip>

The name of C's successor has been debated since pre-C++ days.  C was a successor to B, which was in turn inspired by BCPL.  The debate was whether the next language would be D (next letter of the alphabet) or P (next letter of BCPL).

P and L have also been used as language names.  As have J and K....

Stewart.

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I think that if they had a problem with the name, you would have heard all about it by now.

Mathew please stop teasing us about this book!

Phill.

"Matthew" <matthew.hat@stlsoft.dot.org> wrote in message news:c64d2c$1aip$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Cool. We wouldn't want to have to rename that book. ;)
>
> "Walter" <walter@digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:c64bb2$17rq$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> >
> > "Matthew" <matthew.hat@stlsoft.dot.org> wrote in message news:c63vum$kc0$2@digitaldaemon.com...
> > > I was talking to a friend - who's a Sun engineer - about D while in
> > England,
> > > and he mentioned Sun's D language. He suggested that Sun is not an organisation that tries to screw over the likes of Digital Mars, but
he
> > > suggested that we establish who used the name first. I offered that,
> > AFAIK,
> > > Walter's been talking about D for 15 years, and has been doing it
since
> > > about 1998, which should make it ok (if there was a problem from Sun's
> > side,
> > > which I have no indication that there is, of course).
> >
> > The earliest dates on Sun's D public documentation are November 2003.
The
> D
> > spec first appeared publicly in August 2001, and appeared on slashdot
that
> > month. I'd been working specifically on D since late 1999, though D as a successor to C has been talked about since at least 1988.
> >
> > The precedent is clear and easilly verified.
> >
> >
>
>
>


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