duck!

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Sat Oct 16 13:02:52 PDT 2010


Max Samukha wrote:
> I think that is a wrong approach to marketing. Even microsoft avoids 
> giving fancy names to API functions. It is ok to give a fancy name to an 
> API (Windows Presentation Foundation, etc) or a product but the mundane 
> function names should be as boring and factual as they deserve it. It is 
> poor programmers and not marketing folks who will be using them.

If it's a cringeworthy name, I'd agree. But "duck" is not cringeworthy.


> As other people said, there are better ways of marketing D. For example, 
> you may want to hire a professional web designer to make D's web site 
> look less amateurish.

We're doing that, too.


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