From: "Jon A. Lambert" <jlsysinc@...>
Date: 2005-10-07T09:20:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Can ruby replace c?

Mitch wrote:
> Which D language?
>
> The improvement to c++?
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D_programming_language
>
> Or Sun's (very useful right now) dtrace language also called D?
> http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-6223
>
> I am starting to wonder what languages will look like when we hit the
> Z programming language. Theoretically it is all over then, I mean we
> are out of letters unless we start using Greek or Russian or Japanese
> characters.
>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_programming_language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_programming_language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D_programming_language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_programming_language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F_programming_language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_programming_language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_programming_language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_programming_language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L_programming_language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M_programming_language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_programming_language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_programming_language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S_programming_language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T_programming_language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_programming_language

Also...
A+ is an APL variant
P-code is an intermediate compilation language of Pascal
U is a game programming language (Untermud/UberMud)

AFAIK only H, I, N, O, V, W, X and Y left.  So we're approach a crisis akin 
to IPv4. ;-)