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I think they both chose a terrible name.
by jkkramer 16y ago
I think they both chose a terrible name.
- protomyth 16y agoThere are some great language names for search, but go isn't one of them. Perl and PHP seem to work really well. Ruby and Python sure don't.
- btilly 16y agoIn Perl's case that was quite intentional. Larry Wall used grep over a Usenet feed to be sure that he would catch all references to Perl. (He did this before Kibo popularized the technique.) He therefore wanted a name that (among other things) would have very few false positives.
- silentbicycle 16y agoWorse still: J, K, R, Io, T. At least with Python and Ruby, you can google for "python programming" or "ruby programming". Also, some forums don't allow you to search for single-letter names.
- mahmud 16y agoUmmmm, C?
- silentbicycle 16y agoTrue, but C's past the critical mass where googling for just "C" is likely to get you info about the programming language. 3 of the top 10 results (including #2) are about C programming. Most of the rest are about Citigroup, which has the stock symbol 'C'. (Oddly, Cookie Monster is missing.)
- jacoblyles 16y ago"Issue 9" would be an improvement.
- wmf 16y agoFrom the people who brought you Plan 9.
- huherto 16y agoI think the guy is just playing victim. He was very lucky and he has gotten a lot of attention that he didn`t have before. So he already won. On the other hand google was unlucky. They lost on public relations on this issue.