"Charles Sanders" <sanders-consulting@comcast.net> wrote in message news:bhp63h$1es5$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> > "Bright" sucks. It sounds even more pretentious than "D".
>
> Pretentious ?  How so, [snip]

It would be like calling the language "smart" or "brilliant" or "best."

I prefer to reserve those adjectives for those that use it. :)

Rich C.

>I was under the impression that search engines ignore meta tags, due to their abuse by too many webmasters.
>

Hmm, could be. I did find this though: http://www.traffick.com/article.asp?aID=105

"Google doesn't completely ignore meta tags as I claimed. They may give a very low weight to keyword tags (we'll never know how much). More importantly, the index will grab a description meta tag as a "fall-through" if a site's home page doesn't contain much if any usable text, nor alt tags on images. Another thing Google does in some cases is to use the description written by a human editor at the Open Directory (http://www.dmoz.org), if the site is listed there."

Seems like D could be added to the category 'http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Programming/Compilers/'

In article <slrnbjvk76.pru.jsykari@pulu.hut.fi>, Antti =?iso-8859-1?Q?Syk=E4ri?= says...
>
>In article <bhnvup$2pk8$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Ben Hinkle wrote:
>> I hate to say it but I agree. For me the problem is that whenever I mention it at work people start laughing and assume the language isn't "serious". I have no suggestions, though.
>> 
>
>I guess they also laughed when the "C" language was designed to be the predecessor of "B"...
>
>And consider "Linux", now that's one bad joke for a name!
>
>Seriously, I'd suppose that the popularity of a language will depend more on the amount of programs written in it that on the amount of hours the marketing department has spent trying to figure out a selling name for it.
>
>-Antti

In article <bhondi$nbe$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Sean L. Palmer says...
>
>What's wrong with Deimos?  Starts with the letter "D", it's a bright solar object, it ties in to DigitalMars.
>
>Someone else suggested calling it "Bright".  That's a good name.
>
>Sean

That sounds nice but it would be still hard to find on the web since it is a common word with an ordinary meaning.

-Andrew Marlow

<someone@somewhere.com> wrote in message news:bhq0c6$2kie$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> >I was under the impression that search engines ignore meta tags, due to their abuse by too many webmasters.
> >
>
> Hmm, could be. I did find this though: http://www.traffick.com/article.asp?aID=105
>
> "Google doesn't completely ignore meta tags as I claimed. They may give a
very
> low weight to keyword tags (we'll never know how much). More importantly,
the
> index will grab a description meta tag as a "fall-through" if a site's
home page
> doesn't contain much if any usable text, nor alt tags on images. Another
thing
> Google does in some cases is to use the description written by a human
editor at
> the Open Directory (http://www.dmoz.org), if the site is listed there."
>
> Seems like D could be added to the category 'http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Programming/Compilers/'

It's already here:

http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Programming/Languages/D/

dmoz I think frowns on putting something in in multiple categories.

In article <bhq2mk$2npi$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Andrew Marlow says...
>
>In article <bhondi$nbe$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Sean L. Palmer says...
>>
>>What's wrong with Deimos?  Starts with the letter "D", it's a bright solar object, it ties in to DigitalMars.
>>
>>Someone else suggested calling it "Bright".  That's a good name.
>>
>>Sean
>
>That sounds nice but it would be still hard to find on the web since it is a common word with an ordinary meaning.
>
>-Andrew Marlow
>
>
The overall philosophy behind D is to solve practical programming issues.
One of those issues should be the ease of finding related resources and
information therefore D should have a different name to make searches easier. I
think that Deimos is a good name. D++, Dmd, or Dmos are not bad either.


jaime abreu

In article <bjcr56$279n$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Jaime Abreu says...
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>In article <bhq2mk$2npi$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Andrew Marlow says...
>>
>>In article <bhondi$nbe$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Sean L. Palmer says...
>>>
>>>What's wrong with Deimos?  Starts with the letter "D", it's a bright solar object, it ties in to DigitalMars.
>>>
>>>Someone else suggested calling it "Bright".  That's a good name.
>>>
>>>Sean
>>
>>That sounds nice but it would be still hard to find on the web since it is a common word with an ordinary meaning.
>>
>>-Andrew Marlow
>>
>>
>The overall philosophy behind D is to solve practical programming issues.
>One of those issues should be the ease of finding related resources and
>information therefore D should have a different name to make searches easier. I
>think that Deimos is a good name. D++, Dmd, or Dmos are not bad either.
>
>
>jaime abreu

Along with searching for resources and information is searching for jobs on Monster and such.

John Boucher
The King had Humpty pushed.