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Unfortunately 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 ago
  The 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 ago
    You seem to be a lot more saddened than I am that a nice two letter name wasn't successfully squatted for all eternity by a no longer maintained ultra obscure niche language that no one has ever heard of let alone used.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 ago
      I don't have any particular opinion about Go. Just occurred to me there might be a more charitable interpretation of the comment.