D vs D (Digital Mars vs Sun)

[Thomas Kuehne]

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Walter Bright schrieb am 2006-05-26:
> 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.

Sun's point of view:
http://forum.sun.com/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=75217

Thomas


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