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J the programming language is the first and third hit on Google. I never get this criticism anyway, just add some context ("programming", "language", "snippets
by kryptiskt 14y ago
J the programming language is the first and third hit on Google.
I never get this criticism anyway, just add some context ("programming", "language", "snippets", "libs" or whatever) and just about anything will be easy to find. Surely beats those ugly unique names that people come up with, give me Go over Clojure any day.
- raverbashing 14y agoThe problem is when you're referencing the language in other contexts or worse search engines Example: searching for a package on aptitude or yum
- SeanDav 14y ago1 and 2 letter names cause trouble in other areas than pure Google search, mainly in search on specific web sites and forums. For example searching for "Clojure" on Amazon is likely to find every book related to using Clojure. Searching for "Go" will come up with a lot of junk and searching for "Go programming" would not find any book with say "Go Development" or "Go Recipes". This leads to multiple searches with no guarantee you aren't missing a lot more. How about trying to find a comparison of say Java and Go in a programming/technology forum, better hope that the forum supports 1 or 2 character searches and the threads have sensible labelling.