The result is a programming language that just might defy the odds. Nine years after that night in Seattle, a $200-million startup has used D to build its entire online operation, and thanks to ...

D is a promising language that is able to supply many different needs in the programming community. Features such as arrays, SH syntax and type inference make D comparable to languages, such as Ruby ...

A handful of Microsoft's top developers are working to create a new programming language, code-named "D," which will be at the heart of the Microsoft's push toward more intuitive software modeling.

The language dates only from 2001, and is an attempt to deal with some of the issues that have affected C++, itself an expansion of 1972’s C. The Dlang website rather tartly notes that: ...

Python, meanwhile, is an interpreted language, which means that its human code is converted into machine code line-by-line as the program executes, enabling it to run without first being compiled.