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