• anonymous (8/8) May 05 2004 My father used to tell me when I was young about how he developed 2 diff...
• Walter (10/18) May 05 2004 different
• J Anderson (4/13) May 05 2004 D stands for digitalmars language.
• Phill (10/24) May 06 2004 different
• phil (4/14) Jun 26 2007 anonymous Wrote:

anonymous <anonymous_member pathlink.com> writes:

My father used to tell me when I was young about how he developed 2 different
programming languages that were used internally at IBM.  One of these was the D
programming language.  When he left IBM, he was thinking about asking them if
they would let him keep the source code, because IBM had stopped supporting D
and most people that knew the language hadd already left the company.  I just
saw this D site and found it interesting when I saw someone else had developed
another D language years later.  I guess it's a pretty logical jump from C.  I
hope someone made sure that IBM doesn't own the rights to the name ;-)

"Walter" <newshound digitalmars.com> writes:

"anonymous" <anonymous_member pathlink.com> wrote in message
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 My father used to tell me when I was young about how he developed 2

different
 programming languages that were used internally at IBM.  One of these was

the D
 programming language.  When he left IBM, he was thinking about asking them

if
 they would let him keep the source code, because IBM had stopped

supporting D
 and most people that knew the language hadd already left the company.  I

just
 saw this D site and found it interesting when I saw someone else had

developed
 another D language years later.  I guess it's a pretty logical jump from

C.  I
 hope someone made sure that IBM doesn't own the rights to the name ;-)

One cannot trademark a letter of the alphabet. Zilog tried that, and lost.

J Anderson <REMOVEanderson badmama.com.au> writes:

anonymous wrote:

My father used to tell me when I was young about how he developed 2 different
programming languages that were used internally at IBM.  One of these was the D
programming language.  When he left IBM, he was thinking about asking them if
they would let him keep the source code, because IBM had stopped supporting D
and most people that knew the language hadd already left the company.  I just
saw this D site and found it interesting when I saw someone else had developed
another D language years later.  I guess it's a pretty logical jump from C.  I
hope someone made sure that IBM doesn't own the rights to the name ;-)


  

D stands for digitalmars language.

-- 
-Anderson: http://badmama.com.au/~anderson/

"Phill" <phill pacific.net.au> writes:

"J Anderson" <REMOVEanderson badmama.com.au> wrote in message
news:c7cevt$kfa$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 anonymous wrote:

My father used to tell me when I was young about how he developed 2


different
programming languages that were used internally at IBM.  One of these was


the D
programming language.  When he left IBM, he was thinking about asking


them if
they would let him keep the source code, because IBM had stopped


supporting D
and most people that knew the language hadd already left the company.  I


just
saw this D site and found it interesting when I saw someone else had


developed
another D language years later.  I guess it's a pretty logical jump from


C.  I
hope someone made sure that IBM doesn't own the rights to the name ;-)

 D stands for digitalmars language.

DLanguage!

phil <phil turboschedule.com> writes:

anonymous Wrote:

 Was the other language 'CLIC'?  I used both D and CLIC at IBM. They were very
useful
and powerful.  

 Was your father Jim V. ?

 My father used to tell me when I was young about how he developed 2 different
 programming languages that were used internally at IBM.  One of these was the D
 programming language.  When he left IBM, he was thinking about asking them if
 they would let him keep the source code, because IBM had stopped supporting D
 and most people that knew the language hadd already left the company.  I just
 saw this D site and found it interesting when I saw someone else had developed
 another D language years later.  I guess it's a pretty logical jump from C.  I
 hope someone made sure that IBM doesn't own the rights to the name ;-)