On 16 March 2012 03:23, ixid <nuaccount@gmail.com> 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.

Do you have trouble googling for C? I find that D related results are currently only around 4-5 down the google results list, and it'll only get higher as it get's more popular.
C searches are fine... I am often surprised just how much influence programmers seem to have on search results placement.