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So, are those posts available via gopher://, or why is this called a gopher reading list?
by kuschku 9y ago
So, are those posts available via gopher://, or why is this called a gopher reading list?
- LeoPanthera 9y agoIt's a pun. Go-pher.
- agnivade 9y agoGo programmers are called gophers. Nothing to do with the gopher protocol.
- kuschku 9y agoSo, not only did the go programming language overshadow the other go programming language, their gophers are also overshadowing the other gophers? This is a bit annoying.
- mseepgood 9y agoWords can mean more than one thing. Are you new to the world?
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- PaulRobinson 9y agoGo had over 300 meanings in the OED already. Most people in the community will happily refer to it as 'golang' when talking about the language, and in that context, it is obvious what a gopher is. If you think this is annoying, well, there are a lot of things you can be annoyed about: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/42480/words-with-most-meanings https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/42480/words-with... In this scenario, we should stop using 'run' to describe program execution and avoid the use of the word 'set' in computer science. Think that's likely to happen?
- kuschku 9y agoSure, that’s why society has no trademark laws and all names are reused all the time, and we have hundreds of companies all called Apple that make products called iPhones? Society has realized that having unique names is required to find things and avoid confusion.
- HankB99 9y agoWhat is "the other go programming language"?
- kuschku 9y agoSee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go!_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go!_(programming_language)
- pmarcelll 9y agoApple also did it with Swift https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift_(parallel_scripting_language) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift_(parallel_scripting_la...
- Jaruzel 9y agoEasily fixed: - When talking about Go the language: type it as 'GOpher' - When talking about the protocol Gopher: type it as 'Gopher'. If even just the HN community adopted this, there'd be less confusion.
- shaftoe 9y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)#Decline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)#Decline "In March 2017 Veronica indexed 133 gopher servers" https://blog.golang.org/8years https://blog.golang.org/8years "Go has been embraced by developers all over the world with approximately one million users worldwide. In the freshly published 2017 Octoverse by GitHub, Go has become the #9 most popular language, surpassing C. Go is the fastest growing language on GitHub in 2017 in the top 10 with 52% growth over the previous year. In growth, Go swapped places with Javascript, which fell to the second spot with 44%."
- Jaruzel 9y agoAnd? Gopher (the protocol) is not dead yet. There's an active retro community keeping it alive and developing it. Just because it's no longer mainstream doesn't mean it should be erased from our lexicon. How about I invent something and call it COBOL, is that OK? If we expect our industry to ever grow up, we need to respect its history, and not keep overwriting it.