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The author asks why you would choose a programming language that is impossible to Google, but that's not quite correct: Google has no problem with "D language"
by not2b 6y ago
The author asks why you would choose a programming language that is impossible to Google, but that's not quite correct: Google has no problem with "D language" or "J language".
- madcaptenor 6y agoHow often do you just Google the name of a programming language, anyway? And you'd have the same problem if your language were named after a common word like Python or Java. From about 2003 to 2012 or so I used LaTeX pretty frequently for typesetting and remember occasionally coming across some results that were about a different kind of latex. This doesn't seem to happen any more, from a quick test. But Google knows from my search history that I'm interested in math; a new user might have problems.
- Macha 6y agoThe fact that people refer to google's own Go as golang relatively frequently indicates to me that googleable names are important. These days when I use a language in a query it's usually in combination with something. I might not google go, but I might google go time... which my test run indicates has an entirely different problem than what I expected, the results are go related - there is a go related podcast called GoTime, funnily enough. But I've definitely needed to disambiguate programming technologies from entirely different contexts in some queries.