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Comment by MikeShah

D was originally the 'Digital Mars Compiler'.

Everyone around Walter Bright kept calling it D because it was a modern language with C-like syntax. Thus, D the next letter in the alphabet and eventually Walter gave in. :)

parent MikeShah 2 years ago

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