Bill Baxter wrote

> And the number one anagram name replacement for D:
> Digital Mars: Grim IT Salad

Much nicer in german:
Digital Mars: gar das limit

which translates to: refine the limit
-manfred

Robert Fraser palsat
> I vote Pluto, as a tribute to our dear, departed friend *sheds a tear*.

Or why not the newest discovered planet or planet-like body?
Hail Hail Hail Hail Hail Eris Eris Eris Eris Eris!
All Hail Discordia!

Manfred Nowak wrote:
> Bill Baxter wrote
> 
>> And the number one anagram name replacement for D:
>> Digital Mars: Grim IT Salad

The English ones mostly seemed to come out pessimistic.  Don't know if it's just me, or really what's in the cards.


> Much nicer in german:
> Digital Mars: gar das limit
> 
> which translates to: refine the limit

Ooh, very nice.  I declare that all D users should speak only in German from now on.  I'll start.

gesundheit.

Clay Smith wrote:

> Mercury would be a good name :-P

Mercury is the name of a logic/functional programming language. See

	http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/research/mercury/

Peter

Manfred Nowak wrote:
> Bill Baxter wrote
> 
> 
>>And the number one anagram name replacement for D:
>>Digital Mars: Grim IT Salad
> 
> 
> Much nicer in german:
> Digital Mars: gar das limit
> 
> which translates to: refine the limit
> -manfred

actually, garen as refine is metallurgy slang (says dict.leo.org)
More appropriate translations would be "boil the limit" or "even the limit" (taking gar as a short form of sogar)

downs wrote:
> actually, garen as refine is metallurgy slang (says dict.leo.org)

Ugh, good! I already thought I had lost command of the language! :)

Regards, Frank

"Walter Bright" <newshound1@digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:f7e0hq$1l5d$1@digitalmars.com...
> These days, there are a number of web crawling spiders that go looking for source code to index. D source code tends to superficially look like C or C++, and someone who doesn't know D might misinterpret what it is.
>
> I suggest that all D source code modules have the following comment at the top:
>
> // Written in the D programming language.
>
> This will help people who are googling for D source code, and will help people who don't know they're looking at D source.

Wouldn't the ".d" extension give it away as "not C/C++"?

On 8/2/07, Nick Sabalausky <a@a.a> wrote:
> Wouldn't the ".d" extension give it away as "not C/C++"?

Sure, but D is not the only language using the ".d" extension. I know DTrace in Solaris uses it for its "scripts".

-- 
Anders

Anders Bergh wrote:
> On 8/2/07, Nick Sabalausky <a@a.a> wrote:
>> Wouldn't the ".d" extension give it away as "not C/C++"?
> 
> Sure, but D is not the only language using the ".d" extension. I know
> DTrace in Solaris uses it for its "scripts".
> 

Isn't that called the D programming language as well? If so, then "Written in the D programming language." is not going to help much.

Maybe it should be "Written in the Digital Mars D programming language."

Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Walter Bright" <newshound1@digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:f7e0hq$1l5d$1@digitalmars.com...
>> These days, there are a number of web crawling spiders that go looking for source code to index. D source code tends to superficially look like C or C++, and someone who doesn't know D might misinterpret what it is.
>>
>> I suggest that all D source code modules have the following comment at the top:
>>
>> // Written in the D programming language.
>>
>> This will help people who are googling for D source code, and will help people who don't know they're looking at D source.
> 
> Wouldn't the ".d" extension give it away as "not C/C++"?

Not really, as a lot of spiders (including google's) do not recognize the extension as meaning D source.