D Programming language..

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Despite being a computer science student for soon 4 years it is only about one month ago that i came across this programing language. I had heard of C, C++ and C# but D..not at all.. I even asked a friend..well boyfriend :) if HE knows about that language, since he's usually got more knowledge than me about things, but i got a negative answer.

So i decided to do some searches on Google and try to find out what exactly is D, the programming language.. and.. Tada! :) this is what i found out (a short summary) :

• D is a superset of C
  
• It was designed by Walter Bright.
• D has been highly (not entirely) influenced by C/C++ but it also has some concepts used in other programming languages such as Java, C# and Eiffel.
• It is a general purpose systems and applications programming languages.
• Despite it being a higher level language than C++, it retains the ability to write code for operating systems.

I think not many people are aware of this programming language as it is quite new. The first stable version 1.0 was released on the 2nd January 2007. A version 2.0 has also been released.

Also it seems experts(computer programmers etc) are saying that the next big language might be D..that is to take over C++.

Read more here and here.

I still have a lot to read myself..and why not?..even try D when i have some free time.. :)
Have fun! :)