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Is 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 th

Is 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 ago
http://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 ago
Our 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 ago
Really? http://tinyurl.com/y8zjorj http://tinyurl.com/y8zjorj
- deleted 17y ago
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- igrekel 17y ago
  Hem... 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 ago
Rich Hickey picked the name Clojure partly because the name is easy to search for.
- btilly 17y ago
  Perl 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 ago
    I haven't heard that name in a very long while.
    - qohen 17y ago
      Kibo -- 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 ago
    Not 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 ago
Those are nothing compared to d and r (relatively unknown) and my favorite: io.
- elblanco 17y ago
  funny, I can always find malbolge.
mnemonik 17y ago
Have 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 ago
Searching "go programming language" (without the quotes in the search) seems to work for me.

Is 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 ago

http://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 ago

Our 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 ago

Really? http://tinyurl.com/y8zjorj http://tinyurl.com/y8zjorj

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igrekel 17y ago
Hem... 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 ago

Rich Hickey picked the name Clojure partly because the name is easy to search for.

btilly 17y ago
Perl 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 ago
  I haven't heard that name in a very long while.
  - qohen 17y ago
    Kibo -- 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 ago
  Not 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 ago

Those are nothing compared to d and r (relatively unknown) and my favorite: io.

elblanco 17y ago
funny, I can always find malbolge.

mnemonik 17y ago

Have 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 ago

Searching "go programming language" (without the quotes in the search) seems to work for me.