IBM was first to create a language called D

[phil]

anonymous Wrote:

 Was the other language 'CLIC'?  I used both D and CLIC at IBM. They were very useful
and powerful.  

 Was your father Jim V. ?

> My father used to tell me when I was young about how he developed 2 different
> programming languages that were used internally at IBM.  One of these was the D
> programming language.  When he left IBM, he was thinking about asking them if
> they would let him keep the source code, because IBM had stopped supporting D
> and most people that knew the language hadd already left the company.  I just
> saw this D site and found it interesting when I saw someone else had developed
> another D language years later.  I guess it's a pretty logical jump from C.  I
> hope someone made sure that IBM doesn't own the rights to the name ;-)
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