DStep - Bindings Generator 0.0.1

Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Sat Jan 31 10:38:56 PST 2015


On Friday, 30 January 2015 at 20:27:22 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2015-01-30 15:19, Chris wrote:
>
>> I see what you mean, I'm tired of clever backronyms [1] too. 
>> However,
>> DStep is not a product or a company like Apple but a tool with 
>> a very
>> specific use. If I look for a tool, I prefer it to have what 
>> it does in
>> the name, simply because it's easier to find it with a search 
>> engine.
>> E.g. if there is a color picker plugin written in JavaScript, 
>> it makes
>> sense that it has the words "color" and "picker" or something 
>> in the
>> name (JSColorPicker) or so, because that's what you type into 
>> the search
>> engine. If someone is wondering if there is an automatic 
>> converter form
>> C.h to D, what will s/he type? Probably something like "C to D
>> conversion programming" or "convert C headers/files to D". 
>> It's not
>> about aesthetics, it's about being practical. C2D or CtoD (as 
>> has been
>> suggested) are the most practical names. "C.hD" would be a 
>> nice pun.
>
> I think that changing the name now is too late.

At version 0.0.1? :)


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