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Every single one of those is used way less often and in way fewer contexts than "go." If I hear about this cool new language called Ruby and search for "Ruby S
by chc 14y ago
Every single one of those is used way less often and in way fewer contexts than "go."
If I hear about this cool new language called Ruby and search for "Ruby Sieve of Eratosthenes," it is highly unlikely there's an article about implementing the Sieve of Eratosthenes in another language that just happens to contain the word "ruby." Conversely, the word "go" is depressingly likely to appear in articles relevant to your other search terms but unrelated to Go.
This has become less of a problem as Go has gained popularity, but in my experience it was a bigger problem for Go than it is for most languages. I search for a lot of obscure language crap out of curiosity, and I have never found an obscure language that is as hard to Google for as Go was a year ago. I know the articles existed, because I eventually found them, but dang was it hard to coax the info out of search engines.
- randallsquared 14y agoI just searched "Ruby Sieve of Eratosthenes" and "go Sieve of Eratosthenes". The language ruby was the focus of the first four results, and after that some were ruby-specific and some were just Sieve with a mention of ruby somewhere. Exactly the same applied for Go. The first four were Go-specific, and the remainder were a mix of Go-specific and pages about the Sieve with "go" somewhere on the page. Also, as others have said, one immediately comes across references to golang everywhere.
- chc 14y agoI feel like you must have stopped reading my comment before the last paragraph, where I point out Google has learned to deal with this as Go has gained popularity and now it's not so much of a problem in practice.