Re: Changing the name of the language?

2012-03-20 Thread Chris Dahl
A while back I put this search page together. I killed the old domain, but have set the site up on a new domain. In short, it is a custom Google search of D related web sites. The list of sites is old, so if I need to add some, just let me know. I would prefer to base urls that are strictly D

Re: Changing the name of the language?

2012-03-16 Thread Walter Bright
On 3/15/2012 7:43 PM, Brad Anderson wrote: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/d-programming-language.org/pull/100 Right on :-)

Re: Changing the name of the language?

2012-03-16 Thread Walter Bright
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.

Re: Changing the name of the language?

2012-03-16 Thread Steven Schveighoffer
On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 22:42:15 -0400, Andrej Mitrovic andrej.mitrov...@gmail.com wrote: 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.

Re: Changing the name of the language?

2012-03-16 Thread Manu
On 16 March 2012 03:23, ixid nuacco...@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

Re: Changing the name of the language?

2012-03-16 Thread Nick Sabalausky
Manu turkey...@gmail.com wrote in message news:mailman.778.1331920080.4860.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... On 16 March 2012 03:23, ixid nuacco...@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

Re: Changing the name of the language?

2012-03-16 Thread Manu
On 16 March 2012 23:29, Nick Sabalausky a@a.a wrote: Manu turkey...@gmail.com wrote in message news:mailman.778.1331920080.4860.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... On 16 March 2012 03:23, ixid nuacco...@gmail.com wrote: D is a very poor name for a language. I appreciate it's late in the day

Changing the name of the language?

2012-03-15 Thread ixid
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

Re: Changing the name of the language?

2012-03-15 Thread bioinfornatics
Le vendredi 16 mars 2012 à 02:23 +0100, ixid a écrit : 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

Re: Changing the name of the language?

2012-03-15 Thread Kevin Cox
On Mar 15, 2012 9:25 PM, ixid nuacco...@gmail.com wrote: D is a very poor name for a language I like dpl and post tagged with it would turn up pretty well in google. But, as dlang is the website I think that is the best. Most blogs and fourms have a tag feature and you could always just say it

Re: Changing the name of the language?

2012-03-15 Thread bearophile
ixid: 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

Re: Changing the name of the language?

2012-03-15 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 3/15/12 8:23 PM, 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). Renaming D at this point would kill it. Andrei

Re: Changing the name of the language?

2012-03-15 Thread ixid
Do you think a minor renaming like using Dlang as the name consistently would be damaging?

Re: Changing the name of the language?

2012-03-15 Thread Walter Bright
On 3/15/2012 6:23 PM, 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

Re: Changing the name of the language?

2012-03-15 Thread Adam D. Ruppe
On Friday, 16 March 2012 at 01:23:29 UTC, ixid wrote: D is a very poor name for a language. D Programming Language, the long name, is used pretty frequently and is old; if you spell it out, the search results should get a lot better.

Re: Changing the name of the language?

2012-03-15 Thread Kevin
On 03/15/2012 10:17 PM, ixid wrote: Do you think a minor renaming like using Dlang as the name consistently would be damaging? Yes, Call it D. But use Dlang whenever you talk/write about it. And Dlang sounds silly. Go is still Go even though they site Golang whenever it is mentioned.

Re: Changing the name of the language?

2012-03-15 Thread Bernard Helyer
On Friday, 16 March 2012 at 02:17:13 UTC, ixid wrote: Do you think a minor renaming like using Dlang as the name consistently would be damaging? Yes. Changing it now is an incredibly stupid idea.

Re: Changing the name of the language?

2012-03-15 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
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

Re: Changing the name of the language?

2012-03-15 Thread Alex Rønne Petersen
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 -- - Alex

Re: Changing the name of the language?

2012-03-15 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
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. De. In fact, I wish dmd itself was named just 'd'. Combine that with its fast

Re: Changing the name of the language?

2012-03-15 Thread Brad Anderson
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

Re: Changing the name of the language?

2012-03-15 Thread ixid
Well perhaps something useful will come out of the thread at least. I hope people were not angered by the question.

Re: Changing the name of the language?

2012-03-15 Thread Brad Anderson
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

Re: Changing the name of the language?

2012-03-15 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
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

Re: Changing the name of the language?

2012-03-15 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 07:22:31PM -0700, Walter Bright wrote: On 3/15/2012 6:23 PM, 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

Re: Changing the name of the language?

2012-03-15 Thread Nick Sabalausky
Kevin kevincox...@gmail.com wrote in message news:mailman.741.1331864735.4860.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... Go is still Go even though they site Golang whenever it is mentioned. I like to call it Issue 9