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> but given that the gopher is the mascot animal for Go As it still is for the Gopher protocol, which predates the Go language by a couple of decades. Maybe i
by Jaruzel 10y ago
> but given that the gopher is the mascot animal for Go
As it still is for the Gopher protocol, which predates the Go language by a couple of decades.
Maybe it's because I'm a Gopher (the protocol) advocate, but this theft of the Gopher mascot by the Go community continues to irk me... :)
- acheron 10y agoSee also "elm" the language or framework or whatever it is that gets featured on HN occasionally. Me every time: "Wait, like the mail client?" Probably will continue to happen as old names are reused by people who never knew the originals.