Changing the name of the language?

[Brad Anderson]

On Friday, 16 March 2012 at 01:23:29 UTC, ixid wrote:
> D is a very poor name for a language. I appreciate it's late in 
> the day for this and that it has probably been discussed before 
> (not that I could find such a discussion with Google which 
> relates to my point). Although the results for D are fine when 
> googling for things like "D tutorial", more obscure terms are 
> hard to find because "d" is so commonly used as a variable 
> name. Searchability is important though I understand that this 
> might be seen as a trivial point, it is a major human factor. 
> The language would be far better off with a 3 to 5 letter 
> identifier. It will succeed or fail for other reasons but an 
> easily searchable name would help. Dlang as the search term 
> isn't good enough because it's not actually the language's 
> name, people don't use it that much when referring to D, nor do 
> they usually use D2.

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/d-programming-language.org/pull/100

Regards,
Brad Anderson