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It would've been interesting if they had renamed the language, "Issue 9". I think Google missed an opportunity to gain a little developer goodwill here, but I

by hvs 16y ago

It would've been interesting if they had renamed the language, "Issue 9". I think Google missed an opportunity to gain a little developer goodwill here, but I don't think it will hurt them in the long run. (Assuming Go ever becomes a popular language)

krakensden 16y ago
I don't know, it seems to much like assuming the mantle of Plan 9, and that... has some negative connotations.
- pyre 16y ago
  Aren't a bunch of the Plan9 devs working on Go though?
  - hvs 16y ago
    Rob Pike and Ken Thompson were not only on the development team for Plan 9, many of the ideas in Go come directly from their work on the Limbo language.
    - jbarham 16y ago
      And Russ Cox (http://swtch.com/~rsc/ http://swtch.com/~rsc/) is the creator of Plan 9 from User Space (http://swtch.com/plan9port/ http://swtch.com/plan9port/).
    - enneff 16y ago
      Go is also influenced by Ken's Plan 9 C compiler.
  - krakensden 16y ago
    Yes, but they're not calling it Go9.