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It shouldn’t need to be a company policy, you’d think a competent engineer would simply do due diligence in naming their project. I remember searching for name
by wycy 4y ago
It shouldn’t need to be a company policy, you’d think a competent engineer would simply do due diligence in naming their project. I remember searching for name clashes for a project I wrote solo when I was ~13 years old in the early 2000s.
- kweingar 4y agoUnfortunately Rob Pike, Ken Thompson, and Robert Griesemer are not competent engineers by this standard. I’m sure they’ll be sad to hear it.
- tom_ 4y agoThe competence is assumed. The disappointment comes from people who are competent not doing the due diligence that some think should be par for the course when naming a project.
- patrec 4y agoYou seem to be a lot more saddened than I am that a nice two letter name wasn't successfully squatted for all eternity by a no longer maintained ultra obscure niche language that no one has ever heard of let alone used. Now perl stealing prolog's file extension on the other hand...
- tom_ 4y agoI don't have any particular opinion about Go. Just occurred to me there might be a more charitable interpretation of the comment.