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Google Under Fire For Calling Their Language "Go"
Norsefire writes "Since releasing the 'Go' programming language on Tuesday, Google has been under fire for using the same name as another programming language that was first publicly documented in 2003. 'Go!' was created by Francis McCabe and Keith Clark. McCabe published a book about the language in 2007, and he is not happy. He told InformationWeek in an email: 'I do not have a trademark on my language. It was intended as a somewhat non-commercial language in the tradition of logic programming languages. It is in the tradition of languages like Prolog. In particular, my motivation was bringing some of the discipline of software engineering to logic programming.'"
Even more funny is the fact that they hosting their language on code.google.com
Perhaps we shouldn't worry that much about them harvesting our data after all?
Two "Go"'s considered harmful.
Here's a perfect example of why we need IP laws.
It's NOT me! It's the meds! I'm on 1000mg of Fukitol.
I bet someone at Google will get fired soon...
Either 1 of 2 things may have happened:
1) They used Microsoft Bing to search for potential trademark violations
2) They were too lazy and didn't check at all.
to call a stop. Or a stop!
while $STOP; HAMMERTIME; end
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Google should rename it Goo, or if that's taken then Gooo or Goooooooooo...
from the article:
There once was a language named "Go"
By Google it's made to help the Pro
But there's a claim the name
it sounds quite the same
as another fellow's lingo
This other lingo named "Go!"
"It was earlier" it's inventor says so.
"Why didn't you look
on a webpage or in my book,
it's even google search result two!"
"So Google, rename your thing!
Or in front of a judge you i bring!
Lots of users agree
it was disgraceful by thee
just be sorry and give me a ring!"
So the question arise
allthough google might despise
"what new name shall we be giving
to the lingo that's not yet living
and has not yet seen this world with it's own eyes?"
One fella proposed the name "Goo"
Which is similar to pythons clone "Boo"
But also this name is taken
and not yet forsaken
and honestly sounds close to "Poo".
Another said "Lango" is cool,
He would take such thing as a tool.
But a lingo named "Lango"
Only rhymes "Jango" or "Tango"
This is real, not Star Wars, you fool!
Lots of other names were called
some were boring, some others were bold
The question still remain
Will google act or refrain
from renaming it's lingo as told?
The remainder of my little piece
Is the ironic issue of this
Why did you, google miss
to google "go" before release
You would have known it's not your name, but his'!
my karma will be here long after I'm gone
Plus every source file would be a .gog!
Ice Cream has no bones.
Ah, I see you are an American. Arrogant as usual.
They should call it "Go: Advanced Technology (Second Edition)".
How would Google even know that a language called "Go" exists?
They would have to have some mechanism for searching the internet to do that.
if Google are unaware that it exists then it shows quite how insular they have become - obviously they didn't even think of checking whether anyone else had used the name.
Hey it's not their fault. If only they had access to some sort of computer system that allowed one to quickly examine the internet, a "search engine" if you will, then they might have been able to catch this in time.
The game commonly referred to as "Japanese chess" is Shogi
That settles it then! The name will be "Shogi"
This is why I name all my programming languages by UUID. In fact, look for my new book, Ed68c886-6390-4255-813f-48e61f6b0b06: The Definitive Guide to be published in the second quarter of next year!
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Next up: Go2 considered harmful.
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I created a programming language as part of my Masters program, and it's called Issue9.
Sorry, that's too close to mine.
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Issue 9 is kind of a mouthful to pronounce, plus it might be weird in some other languages (like in french where issue means exit)
Meh, in conversation just shorten it to I9 and you're good to... *cough*. Yeah.
Wouldn't Go! be pronounced Go(bang)?
Maybe we should use "Gang!" as the name, then.
Right now he'd be saying "G'oh!"
I think they should name it Issue Express 9 or IE9 for short. Preemptive naming.
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Actually gang! is pretty clever. It could be a language built on exception handling. Each exception is a ! and as your pogram is running it just gets thrown !'s from all directions. The trick is to handle all the !'s so as not to interrupt your intended process flow.