Or you know...you could rename D to maybe something like....The Mars programming language? The name isnt taken, and im sure it would make it seem more interesting to people.

The reason i would like to see a complete change in the name is because these simple "One Letter" names is getting kind of old, dont you think? D is ok, but at times it just feels kind of, "Meh..."

Ive been keeping an eye on this project for a while now and alot of the comments ive read on here do speak quite a bit of truth. Not many people take D seriously mostly because it looks and feels like its still a simple "One Man Project" from a couple of years back.

The website isnt so bad, maybe a change in fonts and positioning of items and it could look a bit better. A more modern site is definitely welcome.

The standard library could also use some serious love...Although this is understandable since its alot more work for just 1 man. But hey, hes gotten this far right?

On 7/2/14, 4:00 PM, Israel Rodriguez wrote:
> Or you know...you could rename D to maybe something like....The Mars
> programming language?

I think we should have an FAQ for that stuff. -- Andrei

On Wednesday, 2 July 2014 at 23:16:48 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 7/2/14, 4:00 PM, Israel Rodriguez wrote:
>> Or you know...you could rename D to maybe something like....The Mars
>> programming language?
>
> I think we should have an FAQ for that stuff. -- Andrei

I actually added a FAQ entry for this awhile back.

http://dlang.org/faq.html#q1_1

On Wednesday, 2 July 2014 at 23:18:13 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote:
> On Wednesday, 2 July 2014 at 23:16:48 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 7/2/14, 4:00 PM, Israel Rodriguez wrote:
>>> Or you know...you could rename D to maybe something like....The Mars
>>> programming language?
>>
>> I think we should have an FAQ for that stuff. -- Andrei
>
> I actually added a FAQ entry for this awhile back.
>
> http://dlang.org/faq.html#q1_1

I've been searching "dlang" for as long as I can remember now,
and it works pretty well for finding results. ... Except when
Google sometimes corrects you to "golang." (Conspiracy!?)

On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 11:00:52PM +0000, Israel Rodriguez via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> Or you know...you could rename D to maybe something like....The Mars programming language? The name isnt taken, and im sure it would make it seem more interesting to people.

AFAIK, "Mars" was one of the names Walter originally wanted to use, but somehow "D" started to spread and "Mars" never gained traction among the community. In any case, it's far too late to change the name now... that ship has sailed a long time ago.


[...]
> The standard library could also use some serious love...Although this is understandable since its alot more work for just 1 man. But hey, hes gotten this far right?

I don't know where you got that impression from, but Phobos is far from being the work of one man. It does need more work, though. Care to pitch in?


T

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One reason that few people are aware there are programs running the internet is that they never crash in any significant way: the free software underlying the internet is reliable to the point of invisibility. -- Glyn Moody, from the article "Giving it all away"

On Wednesday, 2 July 2014 at 23:33:33 UTC, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 11:00:52PM +0000, Israel Rodriguez via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> Or you know...you could rename D to maybe something like....The Mars
>> programming language? The name isnt taken, and im sure it would make
>> it seem more interesting to people.
>
> AFAIK, "Mars" was one of the names Walter originally wanted to use, but
> somehow "D" started to spread and "Mars" never gained traction among the
> community. In any case, it's far too late to change the name now... that
> ship has sailed a long time ago.
>

It is. main() is still in mars.c.

>
> [...]
>
> I don't know where you got that impression from, but Phobos is far from
> being the work of one man. It does need more work, though. Care to pitch
> in?

Indeed. Phobos has had at least 151 contributors.

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/graphs/contributors

On Wednesday, 2 July 2014 at 19:05:56 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 7/2/2014 11:08 AM, Gary Willoughby wrote:
>> Here is one of my all time favourite talks from Steve Yegge (Senior Engineer at
>> Google) at OSCON 2007 entitled "How to Ignore Marketing and Become Irrelevant in
>> Two Easy Steps".
>>
>> This is sage advice:
>>
>> http://tvuol.uol.com.br/video/oscon--how-to-ignore-marketing--0402D0C90386/
>
> Yes, Steve has a way of pointing out the obvious that the rest of us miss.

Is there the complete video somewhere ? This one cut before the
end, and that is very frustrating.

On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 11:37:04PM +0000, Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Wednesday, 2 July 2014 at 23:33:33 UTC, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> >On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 11:00:52PM +0000, Israel Rodriguez via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> >>Or you know...you could rename D to maybe something like....The Mars programming language? The name isnt taken, and im sure it would make it seem more interesting to people.
> >
> >AFAIK, "Mars" was one of the names Walter originally wanted to use, but somehow "D" started to spread and "Mars" never gained traction among the community. In any case, it's far too late to change the name now... that ship has sailed a long time ago.
> >
> 
> It is. main() is still in mars.c.

Not to mention, somebody else has taken the name too:

	http://ww2.cs.mu.oz.au/~mgiuca/mars/


T

-- 
Caffeine underflow. Brain dumped.

On Wednesday, 2 July 2014 at 23:25:13 UTC, w0rp wrote:
> On Wednesday, 2 July 2014 at 23:18:13 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 2 July 2014 at 23:16:48 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> On 7/2/14, 4:00 PM, Israel Rodriguez wrote:
>>>> Or you know...you could rename D to maybe something like....The Mars
>>>> programming language?
>>>
>>> I think we should have an FAQ for that stuff. -- Andrei
>>
>> I actually added a FAQ entry for this awhile back.
>>
>> http://dlang.org/faq.html#q1_1
>
> I've been searching "dlang" for as long as I can remember now,
> and it works pretty well for finding results. ... Except when
> Google sometimes corrects you to "golang." (Conspiracy!?)

My trick which I use to sound really smart in IRC when people ask questions was to add a Search Engine to Chrome with a keyword which uses a Google "I'm Feeling Lucky" search on dlang.org.

If you go into Chrome's Settings then Manage Search Engines you can scroll to the bottom of the list and add a new one.

I added one with these settings:

Name:    D
Keyword: d
URL:     http://www.google.com/search?q=site:dlang.org+%s&btnI

Whenever I want to look something up I just go to my search/url bar and type "d <whatever>" and it takes me directly what I'm looking for in less than a second. It searches the main site and the forums so it even works with discussion topics. You can add another keyword search that doesn't use "I'm Feeling Lucky" for cases where it takes you to the wrong page or you want a results list.

Name:    D (google search)
Keyword: dg
URL:     http://www.google.com/search?q=site:dlang.org+%s

Firefox supports keyword searches too (though I can't remember how to set them up, I think you use a bookmark or something).

On 7/2/2014 4:18 PM, Brad Anderson wrote:
> On Wednesday, 2 July 2014 at 23:16:48 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 7/2/14, 4:00 PM, Israel Rodriguez wrote:
>>> Or you know...you could rename D to maybe something like....The Mars
>>> programming language?
>>
>> I think we should have an FAQ for that stuff. -- Andrei
>
> I actually added a FAQ entry for this awhile back.
>
> http://dlang.org/faq.html#q1_1

That page could use some serious updating. The GDC link is out of date, no mention of LDC, ...