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I was a bit confused by the title. They really shouldn't name a game after a popular programming language.

• zimzim 9y ago
  the game is a bit older
  • jacquesm 9y ago
    Please tell me you did that on purpose.
    • stesch 9y ago
      We will never know. Hack News is filtering Emojis.
• mikeash 9y ago
  I wonder why we’ve settled on the Japanese name for the game rather than the Chinese (weiqi) or Korean (baduk) names. Using one of those would make it a lot less confusing.
  • dfan 9y ago
    The game came to Europe and America from Japan, and for decades the only translated foreign literature on it was Japanese. Whenever I do a google search I use "baduk" instead. I think most people writing about go are smart enough to throw that word in there somewhere.
    • mikeash 9y ago
      I do the same sort of thing when searching whenever I run into trouble. Even before Google introduced their language, it was a nearly unsearchable name.