Changing the name of the language?

bioinfornatics bioinfornatics at fedoraproject.org
Thu Mar 15 18:30:40 PDT 2012


Le vendredi 16 mars 2012 à 02:23 +0100, ixid a écrit :
> D is a very poor name for a language. I appreciate it's late in 
> the day for this and that it has probably been discussed before 
> (not that I could find such a discussion with Google which 
> relates to my point). Although the results for D are fine when 
> googling for things like "D tutorial", more obscure terms are 
> hard to find because "d" is so commonly used as a variable name. 
> Searchability is important though I understand that this might be 
> seen as a trivial point, it is a major human factor. The language 
> would be far better off with a 3 to 5 letter identifier. It will 
> succeed or fail for other reasons but an easily searchable name 
> would help. Dlang as the search term isn't good enough because 
> it's not actually the language's name, people don't use it that 
> much when referring to D, nor do they usually use D2.

as you said, we have already talk about this. yes D is not really a good
name for search on the web. Commonly we use these keywords:
- TDPL
- dlang
- d programming
- d tuto
- d wiki

regards



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