Changing the name of the language?

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Thu Mar 15 19:22:31 PDT 2012


On 3/15/2012 6:23 PM, ixid wrote:
> 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.

Searching for "d programming" or "d programming language" works very well.


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