Worrying attitudes to the branding of the D language

[H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d]

On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 11:37:04PM +0000, Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Wednesday, 2 July 2014 at 23:33:33 UTC, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d
> wrote:
> >On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 11:00:52PM +0000, Israel Rodriguez via
> >Digitalmars-d wrote:
> >>Or you know...you could rename D to maybe something like....The Mars
> >>programming language? The name isnt taken, and im sure it would make
> >>it seem more interesting to people.
> >
> >AFAIK, "Mars" was one of the names Walter originally wanted to use,
> >but somehow "D" started to spread and "Mars" never gained traction
> >among the community. In any case, it's far too late to change the
> >name now... that ship has sailed a long time ago.
> >
> 
> It is. main() is still in mars.c.

Not to mention, somebody else has taken the name too:

	http://ww2.cs.mu.oz.au/~mgiuca/mars/


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