Change D's brand color to blue.
H. S. Teoh
hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx
Mon Jan 13 17:42:47 UTC 2020
On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 03:06:15PM +0000, René Heldmaier via Digitalmars-d wrote:
[...]
> A bigger issue in my opinion is, that the name itself is not very
> creative. It makes sense because it tells something like: "You like C
> and don't like C++ as sucessor. The real sucessor of C is D!"
[...]
Actually, the original name of the language is Mars. It only became D
after users persistently referred to it as such (I wasn't here at the
time so I don't know the whole story behind it, it may have started out
as a joke of being a successor to C/C++, but eventually the name stuck).
T
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