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This right on the heels of Clo[js]ure ... Hey, Google, you can't have all the good names, you know.

• pbhjpbhj 17y ago
  That's what the trademark system is for. If you create a programming language and don't want someone else to use the same name then register the trademark - yes that costs money (quite a bit for an individual), but then it should to stop people just registering names and squatting them. Of course "go" is probably too generic/descriptive to be a trademark ...
  • techiferous 17y ago
    > That's what the trademark system is for. Very true. But there's also a place for common courtesy and pragmatism, bypassing legal inefficiencies. Go is really not that great of a name, so there is no loss for Google to change it.