D for the Win

Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Wed Aug 20 15:57:27 PDT 2014


Am 21.08.2014 00:02, schrieb anonymous:
> On Wednesday, 20 August 2014 at 21:43:26 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 8/20/2014 2:33 PM, anonymous wrote:
>>>> Dlang Dlang Über Alles
>>>
>>> as a German, O_O
>>
>> I'm not surprised that the German programming community has taken to
>> D. After all, German cars all have those "D" stickers on them :-)
>
> No, no, "Dlang Dlang Über Alles" is a take on "Deutschland
> Deutschland über alles" (Germany Germany over everything), the
> first verse of the national anthem as sung in Nazi times.
>
> I was actually worried if the author is German. He's not,
> thankfully. He's from Israel. From a German author that would be
> an embracement of fascism. Coming from an Israeli, I don't really
> know where to put it, probably completely benign.

As a Portuguese living in Germany, I would say not everyone knows that 
outside Germany.

Specially the younger generations, they just use it because it sounds cool.

--
Paulo


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