On 16 March 2012 03:23, ixid <[email protected]> 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 things like "D tutorial", more > obscure terms are hard to find because "d" is so commonly used as a > variable name. 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 search term isn't good enough because it's not actually the language's > name, people don't use it that much when referring to D, nor do they > usually use D2. >
Do you have trouble googling for C? I find that D related results are currently only around 4-5 down the google results list, and it'll only get higher as it get's more popular. C searches are fine... I am often surprised just how much influence programmers seem to have on search results placement.
