I remember the whole debate over Go's naming very well. There was even at some point a request to rename the language "Issue9" after this thread :) I supposed

I remember the whole debate over Go's naming very well. There was even at some point a request to rename the language "Issue9" after this thread :) I supposed it resurged now because of the migration from code.google.com to github.com. See the original ticket here: https://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=9 https://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=9 I suppose comment 42 (you can't make that stuff up...) is the one that sparked the issue for renaming it "Issue 9".