Who favors the current D1 situation?

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> On 07/03/2008, Bill Baxter <dnewsgroup at billbaxter.com> wrote:
>>  how many people do you think do use D overall?
>
> It's not in my nature to form opinions in the absence of data.

Absence of data?
It would be kind of strange to have no data at all.
I at the very least know that I know nobody around me who uses D and plenty 
who use other languages.
Its not like there are hard fact (in general, but that too much phil) about 
the exact user count of any proramming language.
Then there is tiobe and we know about a few books / conferences.
And in addition to this I have a guess from bb.

My guess from all this data would be that 1000 is too low.