New language name proposal

1100110 0b1100110 at gmail.com
Thu Nov 8 15:00:31 PST 2012


On Thu, 08 Nov 2012 14:39:31 -0600, Flamaros <flamaros.xavier at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> On Thursday, 8 November 2012 at 20:23:13 UTC, anonymous wrote:
>> On Thursday, 8 November 2012 at 20:11:31 UTC, Flamaros wrote:
>>> I like the actual name : D, but there is some issues with it.
>>> D is just to small to be able to do a search on it on internet, a lot  
>>> of search engine just can't index correctly something to small, and I  
>>> think it's just normal.
>> [...]
>>
>> http://dlang.org/faq#q1_1
>
> Sorry I didn't see it.
>
> But I am not really agree to say it's too late, it just depend on how  
> much we estimate the interest compared to the difficulty to do it.
> How many years it will take to be able to do a search on D that isn't  
> linked to the code? Like a job search, or anything else?
> Maybe it's not necessary to change it in tools, but only on web sites?
> Why dlang.org and not d.org?
>
> I think that a name change will affect the speed of the community grow  
> now, because the effect will be larger at the beginning.
>
> I am french and D match really often with d' that is a prefix word.
most likely d.org is already taken.

You might succeed with d.io or d.me or some other variation, but i doubt  
it.
just google dlang.  It's smart enough to find what you want.

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