Is it too late to change the name of this language?

[Daniel Gibson]

Am 18.06.2011 16:47, schrieb alphabeta:
> On 18/06/11 1:26 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 6/17/2011 1:45 PM, Benjamin Lindley wrote:
>>> On 6/17/2011 3:33 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
>>>> The reason D is not as "searchable" as C or C++ is because D is a
>>>> small community. It has absolutely nothing to do with the name.
>>>
>>> But if D had a name like Brainfuck, it would be even more easily
>>> searchable than
>>> C or C++, regardless of the size of it's community.
>>
>> Searching for "D programming" works just fine. Use the quotes.
> 
> Just about nobody understands (web) searching with "'s.
> 
> Of course the advanced (web) searcher knows that the use of
> "'s are often indispensible and dammed if you don't.
> 
> It was a boon when Google started to recognize non alpha characters such
> as '+' so it is now easy to search for C++ material.
> 
> So here's an idea, call D2 D++.  :-)
> 
> ab

Won't help at all, non-alphabetic chars like + are usually ignored in
the search index (maybe there's an explicit exception for "c++").

Cheers,
- Daniel