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It's actually two board games. There's also Waddington's Go: http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/7097/go-international-travel-game http://boardgamegeek.com/boa
by DonaldFisk 11y ago
It's actually two board games. There's also Waddington's Go: http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/7097/go-international-travel-game http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/7097/go-international-tra...
Which proves Francis McCabe's point. Before naming something, it's a good idea to see if someone's already given something in the same category (a board game, a programming language) the name you thought of. And nowadays, we have search engines such as Google that can be used for this ... which Google could have used.
It's now also a good idea to make sure your name is easily searchable. Go is a common stop word ... so maybe that's why Go! failed to show up when searched for?
The decent thing for Google to do is to return McCabe's language in search results if the user types in Go! with the exclamation mark. It has no trouble returning the programming languages when C, lisp, or basic are entered. Better still would be to rename their language to Golang, its alternative name.