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Go programmers are called gophers. Nothing to do with the gopher protocol.
by agnivade 9y ago
Go 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...