Spreading the word about D

[Koroskin Denis]

On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:25:19 +0400, Robert Fraser  
<fraserofthenight at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yigal Chripun wrote:
>> janderson wrote:
>>> Yigal Chripun wrote:
>>>> B) I think that there should be separation between the D language  
>>>> itself
>>>> and Walter's site. Walter's site should be about his implementation -
>>>> DMD, and a different site should be created for the D language
>>>> specification itself which would point to all the related sites, like
>>>> digital mars, the GDC site (do they even have a site?), Dsource,  
>>>> etc...
>>>> I know there once was a d-programming-language.com site which could be
>>>> made the official gateway to all info related to the language.
>>> If Walter where to go this route, I think the DigitalMars D site would
>>> have to automatically go to that website, and the D implementation  
>>> would
>>> have to live in a slightly different location.  The fact is, when
>>> someone searches for D they always get the DigitalMars site.  I still
>>> think one well designed, good looking webpage would do much for
>>> popularizing D.
>>>
>>> -Joel
>>  I disagree. If you create a new site on www.d-programming-language.org
>> [a domain already owned by Walter] and put links to all D related sites,
>> than searching for "D programming language" will match the domain /and/
>> all the info and this site will quickly become the 1st search result.
>> Besides, it makes sense that Walter's site would be about /Walter's/
>> implementation of the language while a separate D-languge site would be
>> about the general specification of D.
>
> Quickly as in about one year for Google (not sure about Live and some of  
> the others...)

It doesn't matter. Think long-term.