Rename 'D' to 'D++'

TooHuman via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Mar 10 06:22:52 PST 2017


On Friday, 10 March 2017 at 14:19:17 UTC, Traktor TOni wrote:
> On Friday, 10 March 2017 at 12:23:11 UTC, Ethan Watson wrote:
>> On Friday, 10 March 2017 at 11:25:11 UTC, Traktor TOni wrote:
>>> I think the name is just misleading, the D developers should 
>>> at least be honest with themselves.
>>
>> D++ - Because no language has version numbers. Not even C#. 
>> Any proof to the contrary is clearly fake proof.
>
> I am not sure what this has anything to do with version 
> numbers? My point is that D is much more like C++ than it is 
> like C, I think D should be honest and reflect that in its 
> name. That's all I'm saying.

So should Java be renamed to Java++? Or maybe D should be 
D-Java++?


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