Origins of the D Programming Language

[Patrick Schluter]

On Tuesday, 4 December 2018 at 22:27:06 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Tuesday, 4 December 2018 at 20:56:43 UTC, Steven 
> Schveighoffer wrote:
>> [...]
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> Yes, you can simply look at the changelog.
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> [...]

This shows the importance of perception managment. Had you called 
D1 at that time D LTS and D2 contined with the 1.x versions. 
There wouldn't have been this negative image associated with the 
"language split". It would have been technically exactly the 
same, but due to the naming, the perception from third parties 
would not have been so negative.