new domain: d-programming-language.org

Carlos noone at nowhere.com
Tue May 9 12:03:39 PDT 2006


Cool!

Have you decided on a design yet ?

So far it seems to be down to

http://hcoop.net/~natamas/d/template.html
http://img114.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mockup5ey.jpg
http://dworks.marte.ro/template1.png
http://dworks.marte.ro/template2.png

And logos

http://www.sukimashita.com/d/
http://dworks.marte.ro/logos.png
http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?Logo

Walter Bright wrote:
> I've just registered it, so it can be the 'official' D site.
> 
> 1) Why so long?
> 
> Because "D" is un-googlable, there needs to be a reasonably unique, 
> recognizable phrase for it. Nothing works as well as "d programming 
> language". There's no ambiguity about what it's about. Besides, most 
> people will get to the web site via a click, rather than typing it in.
> 
> 
> 2) Why the embedded '-'?
> 
> In my experiments, google doesn't separate dprogramminglanguage into 3 
> words. But it will if there are embedded '-'s.
> 
> 
> 3) Why 'org' instead of 'com'?
> 
> Because the D language itself is not a company, nor is it a proprietary 
> language. Hence, 'org' is the most appropriate for it.
> 
> 
> 4) When will it go live?
> 
> It'll take a couple days at least.



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