On the origins of github.com/D-Programming-Language

[Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 9 April 2016 at 00:04:35 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote:
> On Friday, 8 April 2016 at 23:49:35 UTC, Seb wrote:
>> Hei,
>>
>> I just wanted to ask a short question - why did you pick such 
>> a long github namespace?
>> Having something short is easier to remember, shorter to type, 
>> better visible and often recognized as more important (that's 
>> how our brains work). Another good example is that since 
>> github started to include the user/organization name in the 
>> header of issue /PR mails the title is barely readable.
>
> The name was chosen before Oscar Brynolf kindly offered up the 
> domain name dlang.org. The <x>lang idiom for languages was only 
> just starting to become common back then.

By "back then" I mean in 2011[1]. The original domain was 
d-programming-language.org and having the github organization 
match made sense.

http://forum.dlang.org/post/jc0asl$sms$1@digitalmars.com