Digital Mars - The D Programming Language
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Quote: D was conceived in December 1999 by Walter Bright as a reengineering of C and C , and has grown and evolved with helpful suggestions and critiques by friends and colleagues.
I have no idea of the usefulness of the language, or if it is truly worthy of taking on the name, but I thought it was cool anyway. 
C shares that story for being named—it was created as an enhanced alternative to B, as you can read about here.
So I have hope that D will take off successfully, since that would be neat. And maybe in another few years, we can have E to follow up…