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Chrome. Closure. Go. It says great things about Google that these all clearly started as projects that they assumed nobody would ever have to Google. (Although
by byrneseyeview 17y ago
Chrome. Closure. Go.
It says great things about Google that these all clearly started as projects that they assumed nobody would ever have to Google. (Although http://www.google.com/chrome http://www.google.com/chrome is now #1 for [chrome]).
- jkincaid 17y agoIs there a reason why so many languages are nearly impossible to search for? (C, C++, Go, etc.) I mean, surely someone must have figured out that this is not the best naming trend quite a while ago.
- 83457 17y agohttp://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22[[INSERT_PROGRAMMING_LANGUAGE_NAME_HERE]]+programming+language%22 http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22[[INSERT_PROGRAM...
- mdemare 17y agoOur kind is so dominant on the net that our interests eclipse the original concepts. Try googling Java, Python, Lisp or Ruby - not much about Indonesia, snakes, speech impediments or gems to be found.
- joeld42 17y agoReally? http://tinyurl.com/y8zjorj http://tinyurl.com/y8zjorj
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- igrekel 17y agoHem... at one point you will need to search for more specific things. "package management for go programming language" or "XML parser go programming language" probably won't be so useful, and it is sure cumbersome to type.
- frognibble 17y agoRich Hickey picked the name Clojure partly because the name is easy to search for.
- btilly 17y agoPerl was chosen in part for the same reason. Long before Kibo made searching for your name on usenet famous (how many here remember Kibo?), in the early days (late 80s until the volume got too high) Larry Wall used to monitor all mentions of Perl on Usenet.
- elblanco 17y agoI haven't heard that name in a very long while.
- qohen 17y agoKibo -- The man: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Parry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Parry The myth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibology The lore: http://www.kibo.com/menu.shtml http://www.kibo.com/menu.shtml
- cstross 17y agoNot only do I remember Kibo; I was killfiled by Kibo ... (I feel old, now. Time to think about learning a new language.)
- sans-serif 17y agoThose are nothing compared to d and r (relatively unknown) and my favorite: io.
- elblanco 17y agofunny, I can always find malbolge.
- mnemonik 17y agoHave you ever tried to find anything about Io (http://iolanguage.com http://iolanguage.com) through google? Impossible. Any projects I think up in the future are going to have to be named from this angle: how easy will it be to google for?
- thomas11 17y ago"io language" or "io programming language" work just fine. Of course I don't know what I'm missing, but I assume everyone who writes about Io uses one of these words in their text.
- msluyter 17y agoSearching "go programming language" (without the quotes in the search) seems to work for me.
- andreyf 17y agoHm, it could be a self-challenge - make web search good enough to know what I'm talking about when I look for Go? I'd expect: the game, then the language. Certainly not go.com
- whatusername 17y agoSince I saw this the other day: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=go&v= http://duckduckgo.com/?q=go&v=
- ynniv 17y agoMaybe its a branding exercise in disguise. You can't search for ["Chrome", "Closure", "Go"], but for the first two you quickly get what you're looking for if you associate the company name: "Google %s".
- snprbob86 17y agoIt's legally the safest and easiest route. If your company name is already trademarked, you don't need to worry about someone tacking a common word on the end and stealing it. This is why so many Microsoft products have such generic names -- and all of them include at least one prior trademark. Google is at least trying to keep a flat namespace instead of Microsoft's nested hierarchical mess. If nothing else, it would help prevent duplication of efforts because of potential naming conflicts.
- garnet7 17y ago> This is why so many Microsoft products have such generic names Actually, in their case, I think it's more that they want to choose names are a mix between commonly-used word and one that is similar to an already existing product. Wordperfect --> Word, Netscape Navigator --> Explorer, OO.o XML --> OOXML, etc.
- rayvega 17y agoIt seems another programming language named Go! already exists: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=935545 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=935545