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Google Under Fire For Calling Their Language "Go"

Posted by Soulskill on from the rename-it-to-proceed-with-caution dept.

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.'"

4 of 512 comments (clear)

  1. Google should rename Go to Issue 9 by Procasinator · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This was reported by the author in Issue 9. There have been suggestions to rename the language to Issue 9 - I like it.

  2. Re:Go! by wooferhound · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I think they should rename it to "Goo"

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  3. Re:Hmmm... by Rary · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Perhaps Mr. McCabe should have trademarked the name???

    Simply using the name in a commercial capacity is enough to get an unregistered trademark. However, the problem is that he is not selling the Go! programming language. If it's not a commercial entity, then trademark doesn't apply.

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  4. Wikipedia proposes deletion of Go! page by rkww · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It is proposed that this article be deleted because of the following concern: Non notable language. All the sources seem to be papers and a book by the author of the language. Per WP:N, sources should be secondary sources independent of the subject.

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