Written in the D programming language
Walter Bright
newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Thu Aug 2 18:34:53 PDT 2007
Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Walter Bright" <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message
> news:f7e0hq$1l5d$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> These days, there are a number of web crawling spiders that go looking for
>> source code to index. D source code tends to superficially look like C or
>> C++, and someone who doesn't know D might misinterpret what it is.
>>
>> I suggest that all D source code modules have the following comment at the
>> top:
>>
>> // Written in the D programming language.
>>
>> This will help people who are googling for D source code, and will help
>> people who don't know they're looking at D source.
>
> Wouldn't the ".d" extension give it away as "not C/C++"?
Not really, as a lot of spiders (including google's) do not recognize
the extension as meaning D source.
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