D vs D (Digital Mars vs Sun)

[Walter Bright]

Robert.Atkinson at NOSPAM.gmail.com.NOSPAM wrote:
> Not sure if anyone knows about this, but Sun's scripting language for DTrace is
> also called D
> 
> http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/howtoguides/dtracehowto.jsp
> 
> "See the Solaris Dynamic Tracing Guide at
> http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-6223 for more details on the D language and
> DTrace."
> 
> Obviously this can cause some confusion, as I was telling my co-worker about D
> and he said he hated Sun.  It was only my perplexed look of why he would hate
> Sun and what that had to do with D that we investigated and discovered the dual
> use of the "D language"
> 
> Of course... this may be old news and I'm just out of it :D

Sun's naming their product "D" occurred well after our D language was out.