Changing the name of the language?

Manu turkeyman at gmail.com
Fri Mar 16 10:47:37 PDT 2012


On 16 March 2012 03:23, ixid <nuaccount at gmail.com> 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.
>

Do you have trouble googling for C? I find that D related results are
currently only around 4-5 down the google results list, and it'll only get
higher as it get's more popular.
C searches are fine... I am often surprised just how much influence
programmers seem to have on search results placement.
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