Worrying attitudes to the branding of the D language

[Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 2 July 2014 at 23:33:33 UTC, H. S. Teoh via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 11:00:52PM +0000, Israel Rodriguez via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> Or you know...you could rename D to maybe something 
>> like....The Mars
>> programming language? The name isnt taken, and im sure it 
>> would make
>> it seem more interesting to people.
>
> AFAIK, "Mars" was one of the names Walter originally wanted to 
> use, but
> somehow "D" started to spread and "Mars" never gained traction 
> among the
> community. In any case, it's far too late to change the name 
> now... that
> ship has sailed a long time ago.
>

It is. main() is still in mars.c.

>
> [...]
>
> I don't know where you got that impression from, but Phobos is 
> far from
> being the work of one man. It does need more work, though. Care 
> to pitch
> in?

Indeed. Phobos has had at least 151 contributors.

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/graphs/contributors