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

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On 19/06/11 12:21 AM, Daniel Gibson wrote:
> 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

Any maybe an exception for .Net's C# as well?

C#

About 188,000,000 results (0.11 seconds)

... with first dozen pages of results all about C Sharp PL.

dunno

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