The CAPI Manifesto

[Marco Leise]

Am 17.10.2011, 10:20 Uhr, schrieb Gor Gyolchanyan  
<gor.f.gyolchanyan at gmail.com>:

> That sounds good.
> Now D projects will have a mother and a father.
> Phobos is the mother, which is always there for you and is the first
> one you'll go to if you need help :-)
> Diemos is the father, which is the backbone of your software family,
> who you rely on to do all the hard work for you. :-)
>
> It's generally a good idea to separate our own code from an external
> one, which we provide support for.
> And if the "remote modules" proposal gets implemented, there would be
> no problems with using Diemos if it won't get included in DMD package.
>
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 7:55 AM, Walter Bright
> <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
>> On 10/16/2011 8:17 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>>>
>>> I think the name's fine. I don't see "<4-letter word> is already  
>>> taken" as
>>> a
>>> valid argument, considering the huge number of users. There's a GitHub
>>> user
>>> called "phobos" and one called "tools", etc.
>>>
>>> Also, I'm pretty sure the D standard library is named after Mars's  
>>> moon,
>>> considering that D was originally named "Mars Programming Language"  
>>> (after
>>> the
>>> company name, "Digital Mars").
>>
>> I thought maybe Diemos.

Deimos, people, its Deimos >.<