DStep - Bindings Generator 0.0.1

[Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Friday, 30 January 2015 at 13:46:11 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2015-01-30 13:50, Chris wrote:
>
>> I do understand where the name is coming from, but (as has 
>> been pointed
>> out by others already) it offers no clue as to what it is 
>> doing. Looking
>> at the name it's anybody's guess what it is. It's easier to 
>> remember a
>> tool, if it has a reference to what it's all about, e.g. 
>> Cygwin, htod.
>
> Many projects/companies have completely unrelated names to what 
> they do. I'm tired of trying to come up with cleaver names that 
> have some kind of meaning.
>
> What has "Phobos" to do with D or programming? Nothing about 
> "Apple" suggests they sell computers.

I see what you mean, I'm tired of clever backronyms [1] too. 
However, DStep is not a product or a company like Apple but a 
tool with a very specific use. If I look for a tool, I prefer it 
to have what it does in the name, simply because it's easier to 
find it with a search engine. E.g. if there is a color picker 
plugin written in JavaScript, it makes sense that it has the 
words "color" and "picker" or something in the name 
(JSColorPicker) or so, because that's what you type into the 
search engine. If someone is wondering if there is an automatic 
converter form C.h to D, what will s/he type? Probably something 
like "C to D conversion programming" or "convert C headers/files 
to D". It's not about aesthetics, it's about being practical. C2D 
or CtoD (as has been suggested) are the most practical names. 
"C.hD" would be a nice pun.


[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backronym