In article <ccl77g$vua$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Jonathan Leffler says...
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>In the circles I more usually frequent, D is the language of True Relational Database Management Systems (TRDBMS), as espoused by C J Date and H Darwen since the mid-90's.  So, that makes three languages known as 'D' -- I would not be surprised to find there are others too.

And over at http://www.erights.org/, you'll learn all about the E programming language, the the "secure distributed pure-object platform and p2p scripting language for writing Capability-based Smart Contracts."

Jill

--
"Well, so much for Enterprise E."
"We barely knew her.
"Think they'll build another?"
"There's plenty more letters in the alphabet."

Beverly Crusher and Jean Luc Picard, Star Trek First Contact

"Stephen Waits" <steve@waits.net> wrote in message news:ccl702$10h0$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Walter wrote:
> > D first appeared on slashdot in August, 2001, but had been started in December 1999.
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> I figured as much; however, it's between you and them.  It probably doesn't bother you..  probably shouldn't anyway as your D has already become "D".

I should also add that, as far as I can tell, Sun's language was not released until late 2003, when D was already firmly established. It's true that you cannot trademark a letter (Zilog tried that) or a number (Intel tried that), but if I were them I wouldn't call it D simply because I wouldn't want to spend every day answering questions about why it doesn't compile D code <g>.

Arcane Jill wrote:
> And over at http://www.erights.org/, you'll learn all about the E programming
> language, the the "secure distributed pure-object platform and p2p scripting
> language for writing Capability-based Smart Contracts."

Wow..

During the "dot.boom" there was a dot.com speak generator thing which would come up with random things about like this.

--Steve

In article <ccmjq1$298$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Stephen Waits says...
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>Arcane Jill wrote:
>> And over at http://www.erights.org/, you'll learn all about the E programming language, the the "secure distributed pure-object platform and p2p scripting language for writing Capability-based Smart Contracts."
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>Wow..
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>During the "dot.boom" there was a dot.com speak generator thing which would come up with random things about like this.
>
>--Steve

My first thought was: "someone coded such a thing? Sweet."

So ask google, and ye shall receive:

http://www.dack.com/web/bullshit.html http://mba.vanderbilt.edu/mike.shor/Humor/MBAWriter/ (java servlet)

Enjoy,
- Pragma

:-)

That MBA writer is great! Sounds rather like the "SpeakServer" I think Steve was referring to. Shame it's not online anymore ...

"pragma" <EricAnderton at yahoo dot compragma_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:ccmlhb$5a4$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> In article <ccmjq1$298$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Stephen Waits says...
> >
> >Arcane Jill wrote:
> >> And over at http://www.erights.org/, you'll learn all about the E
programming
> >> language, the the "secure distributed pure-object platform and p2p
scripting
> >> language for writing Capability-based Smart Contracts."
> >
> >Wow..
> >
> >During the "dot.boom" there was a dot.com speak generator thing which would come up with random things about like this.
> >
> >--Steve
>
> My first thought was: "someone coded such a thing? Sweet."
>
> So ask google, and ye shall receive:
>
> http://www.dack.com/web/bullshit.html http://mba.vanderbilt.edu/mike.shor/Humor/MBAWriter/ (java servlet)
>
> Enjoy,
> - Pragma
>
>

Here's what I got:

"e-enable viral technologies"

:-)

In an old onion article :).

Microsoft Patents Ones, Zeroes
REDMOND, WA—In what CEO Bill Gates called "an unfortunate but necessary step to
protect our intellectual property from theft and exploitation by competitors,"
the Microsoft Corporation patented...
3311 | 25 March 1998 | News

C

In article <cclfbs$1cjo$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Arcane Jill says...
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>In article <cckg4v$5h$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Stephen Waits says...
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>>  :)  Along those same lines, has Walter done anything to legally
>>reserve rights on that name???
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>You can't trademark a letter of the alphabet! If you could, Microsoft would have trademarked all twenty six letters decades ago, and would by now be charging everyone royalties for everything ever written in Latin script.
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>A couple of years back, ISO tried to charge royalites on ISO language and country codes. Since these are part of the XML and HTML spec, this would have affected pretty much the entire internet. They backed down due worldwide outrage.
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>Now, I have a patent somewhere for the wheel... <g>
>Jill
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>
>

In article <ccmgf8$2usm$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Walter says...
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>"Stephen Waits" <steve@waits.net> wrote in message news:ccl702$10h0$1@digitaldaemon.com...
>> Walter wrote:
>> > D first appeared on slashdot in August, 2001, but had been started in December 1999.
>>
>> I figured as much; however, it's between you and them.  It probably doesn't bother you..  probably shouldn't anyway as your D has already become "D".
>
>I should also add that, as far as I can tell, Sun's language was not released until late 2003, when D was already firmly established. It's true that you cannot trademark a letter (Zilog tried that) or a number (Intel tried that), but if I were them I wouldn't call it D simply because I wouldn't want to spend every day answering questions about why it doesn't compile D code <g>.

Sorry to disappoint, but this has never come up -- our D's are really pretty orthogonal.  And (for whatever it's worth) by the time we learned of Digial Mars's D, our D was also already firmly established (we had several hundred active users of D inside of Sun for several years before it became publicly available).  I don't think it's going to cause much confusion; when people want to refer to DTrace, they usually say "DTrace", not "the D language" or "D" (we don't really advertise our D -- we view it as more of a detail).  But apologies for any consternation that this caused -- I'm just glad you didn't name your language DTrace...  ;)

- Bryan

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