This may sound silly but...

[Jesse Phillips]

There is a good chance I found D by looking for C/C++ successors. But
since all I know was that at the time I had been looking for a language
that I might want to learn before starting on C++, it could be wrong.

On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:18:06 -0500, Xinok wrote:

> Honestly, I think that naming it 'Diamond' would give it less attention. 
> Too many programming languages have 'pretty' or 'cool' names, and I find 
> that I choose to ignore those. I think D is good, because it clearly 
> says 'Successor to C', and that will easily grab peoples' attention.
> 
> Francis wrote:
>> I don't know much about D, but it seems like a very cool language with a very uncool name. I think that renaming the language from 'D' to 'Diamond' would make it a lot more attractive to the public. You know, rubies and perls, they are all nice, but diamonds are forever ;-)
>>