Discussion about D at a C++ forum

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:37:50 -0500, Walter Bright  
<newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:

> On 1/9/2012 10:59 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> I suspect that part of the problem is that Wikipedia lists D as  
>> appearing in
>> 1999. And, of course, since D2 didn't start until 2007, saying that D  
>> has been
>> around since 1999 easily gives the mistaken impression that we're doing  
>> a bad
>> job, since D _still_ isn't complete and fully stable.
>
> Please fix the wikipedia entry!

According to the D changelog, the first version was released in 2001.

-Steve