Steve Yegge on D

[Joakim via Digitalmars-d]

I was reading Brad Roberts' bio before his upcoming talk today, 
where he mentioned that he first heard of D because of blog posts 
by Steve Yegge, when I remembered that it was likely one of Steve 
Yegge's posts almost a decade ago that first brought D to my 
attention, like this one:

"C++ does need to get replaced someday. It's just horrid, and 
everyone knows it. However, there aren't very many people trying 
to replace it, either. The only contenders I'm aware of are 
Objective C and the D Programming Language.

D's a really beautiful language. By rights it should be the next 
C++. However, C++ programmers won't have it because it's garbage 
collected (even though it can be disabled, and even though 
Stroustroup himself is now advocating adding garbage collection 
to C++). Walter Bright is one hell of a lot smarter than the C++ 
programmers who won't look at his language, and he has 
demonstrated that D is as fast as or faster than C++ and nearly 
as expressive as Ruby or Python. It's a secret weapon just 
waiting to be seized by some smart company or open-source project.

But nobody ever accuses programmers of being wise."
http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/02/next-big-language.html

I wonder, how many others first heard of D through Steve's posts, 
which were pretty popular back then?