Am 18.06.2011 17:05, schrieb alphabeta: > On 19/06/11 12:21 AM, Daniel Gibson wrote: >> Am 18.06.2011 16:47, schrieb alphabeta: >>> On 18/06/11 1:26 PM, Walter Bright wrote: >>>> On 6/17/2011 1:45 PM, Benjamin Lindley wrote: >>>>> On 6/17/2011 3:33 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: >>>>>> The reason D is not as "searchable" as C or C++ is because D is a >>>>>> small community. It has absolutely nothing to do with the name. >>>>> >>>>> But if D had a name like Brainfuck, it would be even more easily >>>>> searchable than >>>>> C or C++, regardless of the size of it's community. >>>> >>>> Searching for "D programming" works just fine. Use the quotes. >>> >>> Just about nobody understands (web) searching with"'s. >>> >>> Of course the advanced (web) searcher knows that the use of >>> "'s are often indispensible and dammed if you don't. >>> >>> It was a boon when Google started to recognize non alpha characters such >>> as '+' so it is now easy to search for C++ material. >>> >>> So here's an idea, call D2 D++. :-) >>> >>> ab >> >> Won't help at all, non-alphabetic chars like + are usually ignored in >> the search index (maybe there's an explicit exception for "c++"). >> >> Cheers, >> - Daniel > > Any maybe an exception for .Net's C# as well? > > C# > > About 188,000,000 results (0.11 seconds) > > ... with first dozen pages of results all about C Sharp PL. > > dunno > > ab
there may be special cases for some well know terms like C++, C#, ... but e.g. foobar# yields the same results as foobar. if you search with source code snippets (or error messages containing a lot of non alphabetical characters) on normal google, you often get results that don't contain the non-alpha chars at all, because they are stripped. hmm I just realized that google does *not* ignore ++ (even though it ignores # and --) - foobar++ yields different results than foobar, foobar-- or foobar#.
