• chris jones (33/33) Sep 05 2002 Hi, i just found out about D and it sounds very promising :) I am a Delp...
• anderson (3/3) Sep 06 2002 I think the name D, will be a big marketing point for D. It's the only
• Walter (4/7) Sep 06 2002 The original idea was to call it the Mars programming language, but ever...
• anderson (12/19) Sep 06 2002 I know that (it's on your website somewhere). If it had been called Mars...
• Walter (10/18) Sep 06 2002 huge
• Sean L. Palmer (6/13) Sep 08 2002 I like either Mars or Bright as names. D is fine too. Whatever.
• Sandor Hojtsy (10/17) Sep 09 2002 but
• anderson (7/27) Sep 09 2002 BrightD, was suggested by Pavel. D could simply be the shortend name.
• Pavel Minayev (4/5) Sep 09 2002 Hm... I didn't! =) I always call it D - short and clear.
• anderson (3/8) Sep 09 2002 Sorry, I forget who it was. It wan't me, but I think it's a good idea.
• Patrick Down (4/11) Sep 09 2002 Yes it's hard to search for stuff on D. I use "D language" as
• Russell Lewis (2/18) Sep 09 2002 C has the same problem, in my experience...
• Sandor Hojtsy (7/24) Sep 09 2002 Yes and all kinds of "Ph D." and similiar comes up.
• Walter (6/11) Sep 10 2002 go
• Russell Lewis (4/15) Sep 06 2002 I like the name D because it makes for such amusing conversations. Just...
• Pavel Minayev (4/6) Sep 06 2002 Depends on the language you're speaking. =)
• Russell Lewis (2/14) Sep 09 2002 What about DOS? hehe
• Walter (3/11) Sep 10 2002 Somebody's got to do a Dnile project .
• Robert W. Cunningham (2/13) Sep 10 2002 What would D-liver taste like?
• john weirich (1/12) Sep 12 2002
• Walter (4/5) Sep 06 2002 My favorite is the slashdot poster who wrote "Great, just what I need..

"chris jones" <flak clara.co.uk> writes:

Hi, i just found out about D and it sounds very promising :) I am a Delphi
programer, I did start learning C++ but i gave up for alot of the same
reason that are listed as the motivation for creating D. the first language
i
learnt was  BBC Basic back in the days of 8 bit cpus and 32k memory :) since
then i have learnt Java and Delphi. I have done a fair share of assembler on
the StrongArm(Risc), x86 and whatever my old BBC computer was 6052 i
think?). Anyway as this is my first post i hope my comments are not out of
date now :) I have had a lot of stuff bubling round my head since i looked
at the specs.

So first thought - the name 'D'

I think D is not a good name, it is better than 'Digital Mars Language' or
even 'Mars' and i can see why people prefered to call it D over that but i
still think it should be somthing else. Somthing forward looking.

And is not D already in use by an existing language?

C++ = D doesn't it?

and D is the internation sound for stupididy! Duh, Doh, Dumb, Dunce, Dullard
ect...

So why not have a competition to come up with a name for it, you could run
it
on the website and have some voting and a way to submit names and if no
decent names turns up then you can always carry on calling it D.

Somthing short and snappy and fairly irelivant with no baggage. Imo Java is
a great name because its catchy memorable and totaly irelivant. D needs a
nice name like that.

Some *humorous* sugestions i have so far

D Object Orientated Model -- to be abreviated DOOM ;)
Pro++
!C++
Kevin
D Kapital - (built by programers for programers)

best wishes

chris

"anderson" <anderson firestar.com.au> writes:

I think the name D, will be a big marketing point for D.  It's the only
reason I gained interest in it. There are lots of new C/C++ languages, but
the name D says it all in one go.

"Walter" <walter digitalmars.com> writes:

"anderson" <anderson firestar.com.au> wrote in message
news:al9mfe$2jjb$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 I think the name D, will be a big marketing point for D.  It's the only
 reason I gained interest in it. There are lots of new C/C++ languages, but
 the name D says it all in one go.

The original idea was to call it the Mars programming language, but everyone
jokingly called it D so we all accepted reality <g>.

"anderson" <anderson firestar.com.au> writes:

I know that (it's on your website somewhere). If it had been called Mars I
don't think I would have been as interested. There are lots of other
"improvement on C languages" out there. The main reason I like C is the huge
amount of resources and support, I hope D will go that way.  I think the
name D is much more marketable then Mars, simply because it implies "better
then C" (even know that's not the real reason for naming it D....).

Are there any legal issues behind using the name D?
I wonder why no one else has used the language name D before.

"Walter" <walter digitalmars.com> wrote in message
news:alaj71$2kle$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 "anderson" <anderson firestar.com.au> wrote in message
 news:al9mfe$2jjb$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 I think the name D, will be a big marketing point for D.  It's the only
 reason I gained interest in it. There are lots of new C/C++ languages,


but
 the name D says it all in one go.

 The original idea was to call it the Mars programming language, but

everyone
 jokingly called it D so we all accepted reality <g>.

"Walter" <walter digitalmars.com> writes:

"anderson" <anderson firestar.com.au> wrote in message
news:alasch$h8f$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 I know that (it's on your website somewhere). If it had been called Mars I
 don't think I would have been as interested. There are lots of other
 "improvement on C languages" out there. The main reason I like C is the

huge
 amount of resources and support, I hope D will go that way.  I think the
 name D is much more marketable then Mars, simply because it implies

"better
 then C" (even know that's not the real reason for naming it D....).

Yes, you're right. Once I realized that, calling it D was a done deal.

 Are there any legal issues behind using the name D?
 I wonder why no one else has used the language name D before.

There is no way to trademark a single letter (Zilog tried that and failed).
Most companies want a name they can trademark. The idea of D being a
successor language to C goes back at least as far as 1988, as you can verify
with a Google search. Due to those two reasons, and some more legalistic
ones, D is on solid legal ground being called D.

"Sean L. Palmer" <seanpalmer earthlink.net> writes:

I like either Mars or Bright as names.  D is fine too.  Whatever.

Sean

"Walter" <walter digitalmars.com> wrote in message
news:alaj71$2kle$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 "anderson" <anderson firestar.com.au> wrote in message
 news:al9mfe$2jjb$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 I think the name D, will be a big marketing point for D.  It's the only
 reason I gained interest in it. There are lots of new C/C++ languages,


but
 the name D says it all in one go.

 The original idea was to call it the Mars programming language, but

everyone
 jokingly called it D so we all accepted reality <g>.

"Sandor Hojtsy" <hojtsy index.hu> writes:

"Walter" <walter digitalmars.com> wrote in message
news:alaj71$2kle$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 "anderson" <anderson firestar.com.au> wrote in message
 news:al9mfe$2jjb$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 I think the name D, will be a big marketing point for D.  It's the only
 reason I gained interest in it. There are lots of new C/C++ languages,


but
 the name D says it all in one go.

 The original idea was to call it the Mars programming language, but

everyone
 jokingly called it D so we all accepted reality <g>.

I was trying to find some specific info about D on the internet. Now you go
to your search page, and put in a few words about the specific info and the
letter "D" into the search query. You have absolutely no chance to find D
related pages this way. Try the same with "java". That's why I would like
anything better than the name "D".

Sandor

"anderson" <anderson firestar.com.au> writes:

BrightD, was suggested by Pavel.  D could simply be the shortend name.
Nobody goes searching for "gl", they normally use the name "openGL".

"Sandor Hojtsy" <hojtsy index.hu> wrote in message
news:alhmbl$2rfk$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 "Walter" <walter digitalmars.com> wrote in message
 news:alaj71$2kle$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 "anderson" <anderson firestar.com.au> wrote in message
 news:al9mfe$2jjb$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 I think the name D, will be a big marketing point for D.  It's the



only
 reason I gained interest in it. There are lots of new C/C++ languages,


 but
 the name D says it all in one go.

 The original idea was to call it the Mars programming language, but

 everyone
 jokingly called it D so we all accepted reality <g>.

 I was trying to find some specific info about D on the internet. Now you

go
 to your search page, and put in a few words about the specific info and

the
 letter "D" into the search query. You have absolutely no chance to find D
 related pages this way. Try the same with "java". That's why I would like
 anything better than the name "D".

 Sandor

Pavel Minayev <evilone omen.ru> writes:

anderson wrote:

 BrightD, was suggested by Pavel.

Hm... I didn't! =) I always call it D - short and clear.
Don't remember who was the original author of BrightD,
though (then maybe just call it Bright?).

"anderson" <anderson firestar.com.au> writes:

Sorry, I forget who it was. It wan't me, but I think it's a good idea.

"Pavel Minayev" <evilone omen.ru> wrote in message
news:alicbg$aou$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 anderson wrote:

 BrightD, was suggested by Pavel.

 Hm... I didn't! =) I always call it D - short and clear.
 Don't remember who was the original author of BrightD,
 though (then maybe just call it Bright?).

Patrick Down <pat codemoon.com> writes:

"Sandor Hojtsy" <hojtsy index.hu> wrote in
news:alhmbl$2rfk$1 digitaldaemon.com: 

 I was trying to find some specific info about D on the internet. Now
 you go to your search page, and put in a few words about the specific
 info and the letter "D" into the search query. You have absolutely no
 chance to find D related pages this way. Try the same with "java".
 That's why I would like anything better than the name "D".
 
 Sandor

Yes it's hard to search for stuff on D.  I use "D language" as
as search term but it's not a perfect solution.

Russell Lewis <spamhole-2001-07-16 deming-os.org> writes:

Patrick Down wrote:
 "Sandor Hojtsy" <hojtsy index.hu> wrote in
 news:alhmbl$2rfk$1 digitaldaemon.com: 
 
 
I was trying to find some specific info about D on the internet. Now
you go to your search page, and put in a few words about the specific
info and the letter "D" into the search query. You have absolutely no
chance to find D related pages this way. Try the same with "java".
That's why I would like anything better than the name "D".

Sandor

 
 
 Yes it's hard to search for stuff on D.  I use "D language" as
 as search term but it's not a perfect solution.
 

C has the same problem, in my experience...

"Sandor Hojtsy" <hojtsy index.hu> writes:

"Russell Lewis" <spamhole-2001-07-16 deming-os.org> wrote in message
news:3D7CE3B9.6030609 deming-os.org...
 Patrick Down wrote:
 "Sandor Hojtsy" <hojtsy index.hu> wrote in
 news:alhmbl$2rfk$1 digitaldaemon.com:


I was trying to find some specific info about D on the internet. Now
you go to your search page, and put in a few words about the specific
info and the letter "D" into the search query. You have absolutely no
chance to find D related pages this way. Try the same with "java".
That's why I would like anything better than the name "D".

Sandor


 Yes it's hard to search for stuff on D.  I use "D language" as
 as search term but it's not a perfect solution.


Yes and all kinds of "Ph D." and similiar comes up.

 C has the same problem, in my experience...

True. And also C++, because the plus sign is handled as special by all
search engines.
But now we have the power to solve this problem "at it's root".
Or is the name set already too firmly?

"Walter" <walter digitalmars.com> writes:

"Sandor Hojtsy" <hojtsy index.hu> wrote in message
news:alhmbl$2rfk$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 I was trying to find some specific info about D on the internet. Now you

go
 to your search page, and put in a few words about the specific info and

the
 letter "D" into the search query. You have absolutely no chance to find D
 related pages this way. Try the same with "java". That's why I would like
 anything better than the name "D".

I get good results by searching for "D programming language" or "programming
language D".

Russell Lewis <spamhole-2001-07-16 deming-os.org> writes:

chris jones wrote:
 So first thought - the name 'D'
 
 I think D is not a good name, it is better than 'Digital Mars Language' or
 even 'Mars' and i can see why people prefered to call it D over that but i
 still think it should be somthing else. Somthing forward looking.
 
 And is not D already in use by an existing language?
 
 C++ = D doesn't it?

Somepeople suggested C+=2, but that was harder to say.

 and D is the internation sound for stupididy! Duh, Doh, Dumb, Dunce, Dullard
 ect...

I like the name D because it makes for such amusing conversations.  Just 
try to say "D compiler" without actually saying "decompiler"... :)

Pavel Minayev <evilone omen.ru> writes:

Russell Lewis wrote:

 I like the name D because it makes for such amusing conversations.  Just 
 try to say "D compiler" without actually saying "decompiler"... :)

Depends on the language you're speaking. =)

Still, in English, it allows for some nice terms, like
D-velopment, D-bugger (what would that mean? =)), Doc etc

Russell Lewis <spamhole-2001-07-16 deming-os.org> writes:

Pavel Minayev wrote:
 Russell Lewis wrote:
 
 I like the name D because it makes for such amusing conversations.  
 Just try to say "D compiler" without actually saying "decompiler"... :)

 
 
 Depends on the language you're speaking. =)
 
 Still, in English, it allows for some nice terms, like
 D-velopment, D-bugger (what would that mean? =)), Doc etc
 
 

What about DOS?  hehe

"Walter" <walter digitalmars.com> writes:

"Russell Lewis" <spamhole-2001-07-16 deming-os.org> wrote in message
news:3D7CE3D3.4070201 deming-os.org...
 Pavel Minayev wrote:
 Russell Lewis wrote:
 I like the name D because it makes for such amusing conversations.
 Just try to say "D compiler" without actually saying "decompiler"... :)

 Depends on the language you're speaking. =)
 Still, in English, it allows for some nice terms, like
 D-velopment, D-bugger (what would that mean? =)), Doc etc

 What about DOS?  hehe

Somebody's got to do a Dnile project <g>.

"Robert W. Cunningham" <FlyPG users.sourceforge.net> writes:

Walter wrote:

 "Russell Lewis" <spamhole-2001-07-16 deming-os.org> wrote in message
 news:3D7CE3D3.4070201 deming-os.org...
 Pavel Minayev wrote:
 Russell Lewis wrote:
 I like the name D because it makes for such amusing conversations.
 Just try to say "D compiler" without actually saying "decompiler"... :)

 Depends on the language you're speaking. =)
 Still, in English, it allows for some nice terms, like
 D-velopment, D-bugger (what would that mean? =)), Doc etc

 What about DOS?  hehe

 Somebody's got to do a Dnile project <g>.

What would D-liver taste like?

john weirich <letron_2000 yahoo.com> writes:

Is there a d-void type?

D-velopment, D-bugger (what would that mean? =)), Doc etc

What about DOS?  hehe

Somebody's got to do a Dnile project <g>.

 
 What would D-liver taste like?
 
 
 

"Walter" <walter digitalmars.com> writes:

"Russell Lewis" <spamhole-2001-07-16 deming-os.org> wrote in message
news:3D78D349.3060008 deming-os.org...
 I like the name D because it makes for such amusing conversations.

My favorite is the slashdot poster who wrote "Great, just what I need..
another D in programming."