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Actually, as a non-user of both, I didn't know there was a difference; until your comment, I though Sun had used the other D for dtrace. I know the difference
by 1337p337 16y ago
Actually, as a non-user of both, I didn't know there was a difference; until your comment, I though Sun had used the other D for dtrace. I know the difference between Java and Javascript, but even those languages' names continue to confuse people (usually non-programmers). Not to stomp on Go!, but one significant difference here is that both Java and Javascript have wide user-bases.
I believe Firefox went through two name-changes after the project's initial kick-off, but the Mozilla Foundation is hardly a 900-pound gorilla. This kind of sucks for Go!'s creator (and was a bit sloppy for Google Go's creators), but it's hard to tell Google where to sit.