On the origins of github.com/D-Programming-Language

[Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 8 April 2016 at 23:49:35 UTC, Seb wrote:
> Hei,
>
> I just wanted to ask a short question - why did you pick such a 
> long github namespace?
> Having something short is easier to remember, shorter to type, 
> better visible and often recognized as more important (that's 
> how our brains work). Another good example is that since github 
> started to include the user/organization name in the header of 
> issue /PR mails the title is barely readable.

The name was chosen before Oscar Brynolf kindly offered up the 
domain name dlang.org. The <x>lang idiom for languages was only 
just starting to become common back then.