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Re: Hey, Google! There’s Another Programming Language Called Go!

r_a_trip — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:43:32 -0000

Well, tells you how "big" Go! is. not even Google noticed it.

Re: Hey, Google! There’s Another Programming Language Called Go!

SteveMcQwark — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:33:57 -0000

I wonder how many people knew about Go! before this whole thing surfaced... I mean, where do you draw the line on naming claims? No trademark and no notability/brand recognition makes it hard to see where McCabe gets the right to hold the rights to the use of a common two letter word.

Oh well, its probably for the best that Google changes it, even just to Golang. Golang works, the problem is Google Golang doesn't sound so good...

Re: Hey, Google! There’s Another Programming Language Called Go!

SteveMcQwark — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:28:55 -0000

Erm, since when was that their mantra. And the reasons are to mend many of the typical roadblocks that usually slow down development, including compile time, run time, awkward syntax and structure for common tasks, and garbage collection.

Re: Hey, Google! There’s Another Programming Language Called Go!

SteveMcQwark — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:16:03 -0000

No it doesn't... and by now, his hit/trackback list will have jumped a lot anyways. Search results are dynamic, you know...

Re: Hey, Google! There’s Another Programming Language Called Go!

SteveMcQwark — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:05:18 -0000

Your assertion that there aren't all that many language names taken, making having an overlap even more callous/careless demonstrates your fundamental lack of knowledge on the subject.

There are thousands of programming languages out there, not hundreds. Most of these never made it past personal toy or a few papers or other simple documents. Go! basked in obscurity and didn't show up in any reasonable way in search results until the author complained and brought it into the spotlight.

Looking at McCabe's behaviour on issue 9, he doesn't really deserve any courtesy. He is acting like Google stole from him, or intentionally wronged him, when his language was pretty much unknown to anyone but himself, and the name is by no means inventive, and his behaviour has been unwarrantedly disrespectful and immature. No matter what name Google picks, if it is a word, letter or phrase in the English language that is appropriate, chances are there's someone's obscure pet project language out there with that name already. However, the nice thing to do would be to humour McCabe's vanity, and besides, Go, while appropriate, is a really ambiguous name, as demonstrated by this fiasco. Using Golang as the official name, or something along those lines, would probably be better for Google anyway.

Re: Hey, Google! There’s Another Programming Language Called Go!

RB — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:15:14 -0000

Newsflash: Ideas are NOT covered under copyright law. That is what patents are for.

U.S.C. 17 § 102: "In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work."

Anyway, poor man's copyright is a joke. Anything work you create is copyrighted, regardless of whether it is published or whether it contains a copyright notice.

Re: Hey, Google! There’s Another Programming Language Called Go!

ARB4 — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 02:16:28 -0000

Who is arguing that? In my very first post I said that someone else owned the rights to the iPhone name. Wow.

Number 2, we don't live in a "no trademark no rights" system.

Re: Hey, Google! There’s Another Programming Language Called Go!

Chris — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:37:57 -0000

Actually, Cisco had the iPhone trademark. No trademark means no rights.

Re: Hey, Google! There’s Another Programming Language Called Go!

Eric Munson — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:22:39 -0000

They should have called it "Goo." After all, they are not called "Gogle."

Re: Hey, Google! There’s Another Programming Language Called Go!

e cigarette — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:22:32 -0000

Oh man this sucks... I hope google will respect his request.

Re: Hey, Google! There’s Another Programming Language Called Go!

NewBossSameAsTheOldBoss — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:05:46 -0000

Apparently they hired some crappy researchers who don't know how to use their own product... if you search on: programming language go -google
And then look past the new articles still about Google, you end up at McCabe's Go language before anything else.

Re: Hey, Google! There’s Another Programming Language Called Go!

Xofis — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:24:02 -0000

Incorrect. The day he began using it commercially, he acquired a common law mark.

Re: Hey, Google! There’s Another Programming Language Called Go!

Anon — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:43:53 -0000

There's already a programming language called "C", Microsoft should immediately change the name of their language, "C".

Oh right, one's called "C#" and "C", kinda like "Go" and "Go!". Things sounds much worse when you ignore these little details, don't they?

Re: Hey, Google! There’s Another Programming Language Called Go!

bcpk — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:31:13 -0000

Maybe they ignored him because he could differentiate between "let's" and "lets". Maybe he let go of the rights to Go?

Re: Hey, Google! There’s Another Programming Language Called Go!

Jean — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:38:18 -0000

If I were Google I'd just email his ass and say "Yeah, we're steamrolling you lol." and he'd just be sitting there feeling stupid for the rest of his life. End of story.

Re: Hey, Google! There’s Another Programming Language Called Go!

Daryl Teo — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:02:53 -0000

Gopher sounds better anyway.

Re: Hey, Google! There’s Another Programming Language Called Go!

El Chupacabra — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 09:25:19 -0000

There is another program language named Simple as well. Google it!

Re: Hey, Google! There’s Another Programming Language Called Go!

eebeeno — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 09:06:48 -0000

Wow, that is totlly incredible is it not?

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Re: Hey, Google! There’s Another Programming Language Called Go!

John1111 — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:58:17 -0000

Google already heavily uses Java internally and in all of their software releases to developers. What's the point in this new language again?

Google seems to have forgotten about the mantra: Don't over-extend yourself.

Re: Hey, Google! There’s Another Programming Language Called Go!

Ashkir — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:08:50 -0000

I never heard of 'Go!' before this. oO

Re: Hey, Google! There’s Another Programming Language Called Go!

abee — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:52:43 -0000

whoa...should google changes the name then??

Re: Hey, Google! There’s Another Programming Language Called Go!

Anand — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:57:09 -0000

Now that Go's taken, let's call is Ogle...

Re: Hey, Google! There’s Another Programming Language Called Go!

Pranay Manocha — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:37:37 -0000

and confusing...

Re: Hey, Google! There’s Another Programming Language Called Go!

[SOLVED] Chris — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:55:30 -0000

[SOLVED] Rename to .Go or Go#
:)

Re: Hey, Google! There’s Another Programming Language Called Go!

Anonymous — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:15:55 -0000

1. Mashable is clearly not very technical. They're days late and the only aspect of the language they care about is the easy part for them to understand--naming. Clearly shows the caliber of this site again.

2. Google should just call the language Golang as they have the domain golang.com/.net/.org already anways. Kinda like how Erlang is Ericcson Language.