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R is a poor name, whether you can google it or not. The name can get lost in the minefield of text on the internet. Just because you never had any issues with g
by fermienrico 8y ago
R is a poor name, whether you can google it or not. The name can get lost in the minefield of text on the internet. Just because you never had any issues with google R does not make it any better. I have had many issues googling R and it always makes me second guess if this thread is about R language at all. On SO, I have to check if R is tagged.
R is a terrible name and it is not up for a debate. Whenever you name a product, company or in this case a language as a letter "R", you're literally asking for trouble.
Just to be fair, C is also a horrible name. On the other end of the spectrum - Julia and Rust are excellent names for a programming language because they're unique in the context of programming.
- carlmr 8y ago>Just to be fair, C is also a horrible name. On the other end of the spectrum - Julia and Rust are excellent names for a programming language because they're unique in the context of programming. Funny enough I most often get wrong results when googling something Rust related, because there's a town called Rust (Germany), so Google pushes the location based results up, and rust is also, well, oxidized metal, so sometimes I get DIY pages as a result. I love pretty much every other design decision about Rust, but it's the one "hard" to Google language in my experience.
- sametmax 8y agoWhich is why we use "rustlang" and "golang" for keywords, tags, and search terms everywhere. Maybe they should start using Rlang. Although it's going to be annoyingly close to erlang
- dnautics 8y agoFunny story, I once worked extensively with early Julia in a scientific setting where the hr directors name was Julia Lang, and we joked that if someone checked packets they would think I was stalking her.
- d_watt 8y agoTo be fair, when both of these came out, SEO wasn't a thing.