Why I chose D over Ada and Eiffel

[Walter Bright]

On 8/20/2013 7:30 AM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> Well, I was referring to languages and systems invented today. Obviously
> there is still a large amount of legacy code that can't handle Unicode
> yet, but any new language or new system invented today has no excuse to
> not support Unicode.

Even back in 1999 when I started with D, it was obvious that it had to be 
Unicode front to back.