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Go is a poor choice of name #55

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gopherbot opened this issue Nov 11, 2009 · 2 comments
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Go is a poor choice of name #55

gopherbot opened this issue Nov 11, 2009 · 2 comments

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by john.corbett:

What steps will reproduce the problem?

Try to look up go, or any other stop word in a search engine.
Notice the results are garbage.

Please provide any additional information below.

Please do not name your thing after a common term or a term already
strongly associated with something else. Even if you succeed in displacing
a established meaning, you don't win--you just offend people.

Other examples of dumb names, in case you need to be hit over the head with
it: C, C++, X, widget, R, S, NeXT, and processing. I'm sure that now that
you have the idea you can generate more bad names yourself, but please don't.

Thanks,
  John
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Comment 1 by DickFardos:

go! is already an existing programming language.  google needs to change the name.

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agl commented Nov 11, 2009

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Status changed to Duplicate.

Merged into issue #9.

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