My Vision of D’s Future

Re:My Vision of D’s Future by rickette on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @10:34AM (#21258814)

It's beyond me why most languages fall into this trap: C, C++, C#, D, Go, etc. All hard to search for. Granted some of these predate the internet, but most do not. Almost looks like some kind of secret agreement between language designers.

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Re:My Vision of D’s Future by furyofantares on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @11:52AM (#21259771)

I’ve used all of those languages and never had a problem searching for things for any of them, with the exception of C# very briefly at the time it was released.

Whenever this complaint is lodged I feel like it’s just an easy thing to complain about that isn’t an actual problem at all. Am I wrong?

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Re:My Vision of D’s Future by yiyus on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @01:16PM (#21260994)

What you call trap I call tradition. There is a limited number of one letter names, getting your language to be identified with one is a big achievement. For D in particular, there has been a long competition to become "the next C" and the name has helped D to always be considered a contender.

And it does not poses such a problem for searching engines in practice. At the end of the day, you never search for "C", you search for something like "pointer to function in C" and probably much more specific, so any search engine will give you right results.

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Re:My Vision of D’s Future by tsegratis on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @03:47PM (#21262856)

I'm going to name my language after ' ', ascii 32

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Re:My Vision of D’s Future by quickthrower2 on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @06:00AM (#21268710)

What about lower case c

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Re:My Vision of D’s Future by ttkciar on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @04:00PM (#21262990)

Google for "dlang" (including the quotes) and you'll get all the D hits you want.

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