On 3/15/12 9:17 PM, ixid wrote:
> Do you think a minor renaming like using Dlang as the name consistently
> would be damaging?

Not damaging. Deadly.

Andrei

On 16-03-2012 03:17, ixid wrote:
> Do you think a minor renaming like using Dlang as the name consistently
> would be damaging?

Like Andrei said, deadly, but it also sounds... really bad. Just pronounce it: "Dee-lang"

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- Alex

> On 16-03-2012 03:17, ixid wrote:
> Do you think a minor renaming like using Dlang as the name consistently
> would be damaging?

But what about all those people who have D tattooed on their necks? D is awesome. Deeeee.

In fact, I wish dmd itself was named just 'd'. Combine that with its fast compile times and it would make it really feel like an interpreter! :P

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

Well perhaps something useful will come out of the thread at least. I hope people were not angered by the question.

On Friday, 16 March 2012 at 02:46:25 UTC, ixid wrote:
> Well perhaps something useful will come out of the thread at least. I hope people were not angered by the question.

They'll forgive you...in time. :P

Regards,
Brad Anderson

On 3/15/12 9:46 PM, ixid wrote:
> Well perhaps something useful will come out of the thread at least. I
> hope people were not angered by the question.

Not at all.

I think a good thing do do would be to put a word of advice on dlang.org for people on how to google for D.


Andrei

"Kevin" <kevincox.ca@gmail.com> wrote in message news:mailman.741.1331864735.4860.digitalmars-d@puremagic.com...
>
> Go is still Go even though they site Golang whenever it is mentioned.

I like to call it "Issue 9"

On 3/15/2012 7:43 PM, Brad Anderson wrote:
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/d-programming-language.org/pull/100

Right on :-)

On 3/15/2012 7:46 PM, ixid wrote:
> I hope people were not angered by the question.

Not in the least. It's a common question, and belongs in the FAQ.