The D Programming Language

Posted by michael on Wednesday August 15, 2001 @11:57PM from the whiter-whites-and-brighter-colors dept.

dereferenced writes: "Walter Bright, author of the original Zortech C++ Compiler and the free (as in beer) Digital Mars C/C++ Compiler, has posted a draft specification for a new programming language that he describes as "a successor to C and C++". It seems to me that most of the "new" programming languages fall into one of two categories: Those from academia with radical new paradigms and those from large corporations with a focus on RAD and the web. Maybe its time for a new language born out of practical experience implementing compilers."

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Re:After C comes P! by heffrey · 2001-08-16 00:52 · Score: 0, Flamebait

First their was BCPL

Then there was spelling....
Octothorpe by streetmentioner · 2001-08-16 00:55 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Apparently it was named octothorpe because it looked like the street pattern of an English village. Can't remember where I read that.