I have already used the name for *MY* programming language

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by fmccabe:

I have been working on a programming language, also called Go, for the last 10 years.
There have 
been papers published on this and I have a book.

I would appreciate it if google changed the name of this language; as I do not want to
have to 
change my language!

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Comment 1:

References?

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Comment 2 by fmccabe:

If you google (sic) francis mccabe go you will find some references.
I published the book on lulu.com

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Comment 3 by reidellis:

I think Mr McCabe's language is called "Go!". Here's the Lulu link:
http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/lets-go/641689

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Comment 4 by niral.n95:

reidellis: is right! its "Lets Go!" or "Go!". This is google "go", "The Go 
Programming Language" Bigg Difference.. :)
P.s. Anyone hearing the release of Google "go" would have picked up their book that 
never sold and started finding the work "GO" and as they would find their 1st "GO" 
they wil go , Eureka! :)

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Comment 5 by fmccabe:

My language is called Go!. The book is called Let's Go!. 
The issue is not whether or not Google's go will be well known. It is one of fairness.

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Comment 6 by zhenshe41:

In Go! , can the IDE know the differences between Go! and go ?

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Comment 7 by shirish4you:

ah... Google should change the name...

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Comment 8 by marcio.andreeta:

"In Go! , can the IDE know the differences between Go! and go ?"
I don't know about the IDE, but I just tested and google search engine sure can't.

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Comment 9 by spronkey:

Indeed they should. Full support for you, Mr. McCabe. It's not that hard to find 
references to your language online either - it was on the first page of Bing, second 
of Google for 'go programming language'.
In fact, the title of the Google go tutorial page is even "Let's Go".
It would be pretty poor for you folks Google to keep this name given your "do no 
evil" slogan!

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Comment 10 by nofakesallowed:

Google should totally change the name, fmccabe you should find a (cheap) lawyer just
in case...
Google has deep pockets.

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Comment 11 by nofakesallowed:

btw, what's up reddit

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Comment 12 by alex.salkever:

fmcabe -- could you contact me at alex @ dailyfinance.com? Might want to write a
little article about this. Thanks.

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Comment 13 by edward.benson:

Google, here is yet another tick along the wood block: are you a giant corporation or a
collection of geeks. If the 
former, ignore fmccab and be grouped with MS and every other conglomerate, if the
latter, change the name of 
this language to something new.

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Comment 14 by matthew.m.mckenzie:

google should change!

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Comment 15 by senthil.nayagam:

maybe name it Goo or Foo

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Comment 16 by mail2ankitgupta:

A company claiming to capture world's info, missed it!!!

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Comment 17 by terence.stuart:

Let the language with the most users keep its name.  
Er... That's not yours, is it?

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Comment 18 by blair.briggs:

Go, find a new name. ;)

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Comment 19 by josecamporro:

I agree with majority on this. Google should change the name of this language...
Francis McCab is right, Go! and Go are not that different. And he went first, public.

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Comment 20 by sebastian@realpath.org:

Google should consider a different name simply for the reason that "Go" is just a too
common word and it might eventually become difficult to google for references and
examples about this language. A somewhat more unique name can have its benefits.

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Comment 21 by Afro.Systems:

I think lango would be a great name and I am hereby to give away to google any
copyrights for the name.

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Comment 22 by ismetdere:

Goo, whould be just fine.

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Comment 23 by QrczakMK:

Goo is already taken too, although it has been dead for a few years I think.

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Comment 24 by zak.wilson:

Goo is the name of a Lisp dialect.

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Comment 25 by daniel.kolman:

Both Google and fmccabe should find a new name, "Go" is silly name for a programming 
language.

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Comment 26 by brett@webtrotter.com:

how about GOOP = Google Object Oriented Programming?
mccabe- personally, I agree with you, but while you may be first, and you may be
published, your issue title begs not to take you seriously regardless of your actual
stature.
I do hope this is resolved in your favor though.

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Comment 27 by jwb.public:

how about ogle?

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Comment 28 by srikumarks:

Given that is derives from Limbo, "Bo" would be short and sweet as well. They can also 
use "boroutines" :P

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Comment 29 by ismetdere:

Goo is gone too? damn..  what about Goat?

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Comment 30 by killercore:

I'd go for JAgo: Just Another go

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Comment 31 by jason.lee.quinn:

Goat Special Edition

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Comment 32 by nikola.tepper:

It is completely absurd to use name of an already existing language. Hey Google, 
couldn't you, i don't know... google it? Oh right, the name is so generic, that is 
almost impossible to get relevant matches. If this language catches on, it'll be a 
nightmare to search for problems and solutions.

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Comment 33 by Linnsey:

There are so many hobby and specialist programming langues it's always a struggle to 
find a name that's not taken.

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Comment 34 by jsykari:

May I humbly suggest "go2"?
Even C++ got away with naming the language after an esoteric feature of C -- perhaps
naming a language after "goto" isn't that bad.

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Comment 35 by Linnsey:

There are so many hobby and specialist programming languages it'd be hard to find a 
name that's not taken.

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Comment 36 by arnabdotorg:

How about "Cy" (given the C and python influences)?

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Comment 37 by david.kitchen:

@33 Disturbing but funny... I can imagine the logo now: 3OE
@34 Look at the dates of these things, it would appear that go started around the
same time that the book was being written (but Go! already existed). I wouldn't be
surprised to learn that due diligence was done at the time but simply that since then
it just hadn't been revisited.
@36 http://xkcd.com/292/

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Comment 38 by patla073:

Why not just name it Golang?
Erlang - "Ericsson Language"
Golang - "Google Language"

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Comment 39 by drc.uvic:

Does anyone use 'Go!'? If yours is better, or has a decent user base then a name change
might be the right thing 
to do.  If you're bringing it up for academic pride then I don't see why they should
have to change anything.

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Comment 40 by abouthors:

Jago is already taken by a program to play the game of go.

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Comment 41 by dhammiko.com:

Yeah Linnsey is right, being creative and innovative is hard screw all that!

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Comment 42 by charles.majola:

This is issue #9...... Plan 9..... 
Coincidence?

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Comment 43 by tuxthelinuxdood:

It is obvious that Google employees did not research the name in terms of existing 
languages before release. In such a situation I believe Google is at fault and the name 
should be changed. I doubt it will happen but it to change it would be in line with "do 
no evil".

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Comment 44 by GeoffreyJ.Lee:

How about "Google Go"?
Go2 is pretty clever though, so my vote is on that.

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Comment 45 by roblesjm:

Google always releases new products with the prefix "Google". In this case, I don't 
know if Google want release a new product or make an Alliance like Android. 
In the first case, I would use "GoogleC". For the second, something like "GCP" from 
(Google C Python).

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Comment 46 by ismetdere:

Goat it is... there, settled.

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Comment 47 by Peter.Schweizer:

i'd suggest "giggity giggity goo" as new name since quagmire is a very funny guy
btw. hi reddit :)

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Comment 48 by ruivaldo:

"Do" ? Makes sense, check the purpose of the lang.

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Comment 49 by ismetdere:

Goat it is... there, settled.

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Comment 50 by gkarag:

How about OG?

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Comment 51 by fboudot:

Well, one of you should rename its language "gone" :D

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Comment 52 by pierrevm:

First Closure (name-squatting Clojure) now Go stopping Go! in its tracks. Just another
week in the life  of a giant 
company. Google seems to be dropping to the level of ye olde "Embrace and Extend" - just
throw your weight 
around - MSFT mode. Way to go (!) boys! I think I'll might just create a search engine
called "Google!", let's see if 
this ruffles some feathers in the 'Plex.

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Comment 53 by shrewd.user:

Rename the language to just "G" / "G!" 
makes it more clear that it's a lower level compiled language and also indicates that 
it's new.

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Comment 54 by shrewd.user:

or G plus

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Comment 55 by garybradski:

goo?

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Comment 56 by vincent.vipertech:

So what about the game GO. That name has been used for years too.
How well used is you language. Do you have a major following in place that use it or
is is just something you used.
You mention a web site publishing. What about actual registering the name before
Google gets a hold of it? 
Over time eventually every word or name can claimed to be used. If you don't actually
register its usage or copryright/left or trademark it I guess your shot.

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Comment 57 by spiffistan:

Golang or Goto are oth great

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Comment 58 by ronaldwhitman:

Ironic that Google didn't Google the name first

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Comment 59 by spiffistan:

G, Golang and Goto are all great names. There should be a poll!

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Comment 60 by segdeha:

Considering the circumstances, the following might be an appropriate name: D'oh!

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Comment 61 by tnhashmi:

@55: I doubt if they'd call it G! due to Yahoo!. Or maybe they could, just to poke Y!
to check if there's still life in the rival ;-) Yahoo! had a product for mobile
phones called Go, BTW. It's now turned into a longish sentence.
I'd vote for go2 as well. It's the new go, the new goto and it doesn't take away the
"go func()" syntax for goroutines.

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Comment 62 by david.kitchen:

@40 Golang looks like a winner... they're already using the domain http://golang.org/
and it looks like no-one else is using that as a language name.

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Comment 63 by alex.blewitt:

Seems like a bit of basic research would have uncovered the similarity before
announcement.

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Comment 64 by yless42:

@54: Closure is named after a well known and well established javascript (ECMAscript)
programming concept, which makes sense since that's what it targets.  I doubt it has
anything to do with something with a different (although close) name when something
with the SAME name is already part of the language they're doing.  If you're going to
complain about that complain about the fact that now searching for "javascript
closure" is ambiguous as to whether you mean the concept or the compiler.  Searching
for "Clojure" still returns the correct results.
As for the name, as you all rightly pointed out, one is called "go" and the other is
called "Go!".  Am I the only person seeing the similarities between that and "C" and
"C#"?  If you think that having an extra character is a problem, you should go speak
to Microsoft first.  People also pointed out the fact that "goo" is already taken,
who is going to be first to demand they change their name too for being too close to
"Go!"?  Or "G"?
I suggest you see these lists:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programming_languages
http://esolangs.org/wiki/Language_list
See how many languages there are on those lists where one name is only separated from
another name by one character?  Is this going to be a new campaign that any
programming language must have at least 4 different characters from another
programming language?

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Comment 65 by lars.wessman:

This just doesn't look good for Google. Namesquatting on other languages is just poor
manners and arrogance. 
Saying that it's ok because Microsoft does it hardly improves the strength of Google's
case. 
Hmmm. It makes one reconsider basing what one is doing around Google's products doesn't
it? This is a 
company that is becoming increasingly badly behaved. One day you have collusion with the
Chinese government 
and gratuitous namesquatting on other languages, the next day... what? will it be
passing along the position of 
people using the Android navigation system to the Government without subpoena? Something
more nefarious?

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Comment 66 by GeoffreyJ.Lee:

I'd like to point out that G and Goto are already used as names for programming 
languages, although Goto seems to be just a hobby language.
G - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LabVIEW
Goto Language - http://pivot.servut.us/w/Goto

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Comment 67 by abouthors:

I propose this name : IHAUTNF*M*PL as the formal, official name. For day-to-day
activities we could use "issue #9".   ;-)

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Comment 68 by pygy79:

@66 the spelling may be different, but in both cases (Clojure and Go!), the
pronounciation of the Google 
newly introduced products is identical. 
I don't know if there's a legal case here, but Google financial weight makes any trial
unfair to begin with. 
It's more a matter of courtesy and good manners anyway.

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Comment 69 by ronaldwhitman:

I agree it should be renamed "issue #9"

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Comment 70 by roblesjm:

and... Goopy = GOOgle + PYthon?
Golang is great too.

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Comment 71 by xtimmu:

Cash it out. Sell it to google for settlement or smth.

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Comment 72 by Kicken07:

All those asking how much usership Go has:
 
Should that really be an issue? If Go is a legitimate language, Google should do the
sensible thing and change their name. Otherwise this would just be a case of the
little guy getting stomped on by the big company.

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Comment 73 by klutometis:

I third "issue #9"!

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Comment 74 by rnmboon:

On a side note: it wasn't easy to find information on Go! via Google, Bing or Yahoo.
I can understand that the Google people may have missed it during a scan on whether
the name was already used.
It doesn't really matter though. A solution needs to be worked out here.

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Comment 75 by wrinkles:

Go and Go! are not the same? Great, I just started a new company called Yahoo.

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Comment 76 by skyisle:

Fantastic idea! "issue #9!"

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Comment 77 by rnmboon:

They should change the name to "god". Why hold back on the level of ambition here.

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Comment 78 by jmattheij:

Google should do the right thing and change their name, be gracious about it.
Do no evil, remember ?

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Comment 79 by yarkot1:

What is peculiar is that on Mr. McCabe's blog
(http://frankmccabe.wordpress.com/category/computer-languages/)  he mentions (in a
2008 post, the year after his go! book)  he's developing a language, and does not
mention this languages name (I am guessing it _might_ be go!, but who knows?);
Wikipedia has no mention of "go!";  I don't find reference with google or bing (other
than news generated by this thread);  However, McCabe did publish a paper on "go!"
(2004): http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~klc/annals.pdf
In fact, the paper states that 'Go!' is available on
http://sourceforge.net/projects/networkagent/, and was developed jointly with McCabe
and Clark.  The description is of 
"A group of systems for building network-oriented intelligent agents, consisting an
agent communications infrastructure, April - an agent construction programming
language, Go! - a logic programming language and DialoX - an XML-based user interface
engine".
I don't know if this domain specificity impacts go's stated general purpose systems
programming - but the sourceforge area has commits back in 2000.
Interesting!

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Comment 80 by Peter.Lount:

Francis McCabe, do you have a trademark with a (tm) or registered on your language
"Go!"? I see you have a book on it, very nice. A trademark though would likely settle
this matter in your favor especially if you decided to ask The Google for a bit of
their GOld that shines on GOogle for your letting them use Go as a name for their
language. Just a thought.
I really like Golang by the way Go(oogle) team since Go(ogle) seems to be very
similar and in the same category of languages as Erlang in the sense of servers and
clients communicating via pipes aka channels in Go(ogle) much like what happens in
Erlang. Both are characterized by coarse grained concurrency in the servers, although
in your examples you did show a very simple fine grained 100,000 unit spawn of
Go(ogle)routines flocking in a serial flow of chain linked servers. Nice.

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Comment 81 by charles.majola:

I fourth issue #9

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Comment 82 by charles.chmj:

@82
Common law with regards to copyright, I don't think he needs a trademark.

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Comment 83 by ethulin:

5th for issue #9/

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Comment 84 by marko.kocic:

It doesn't matter who has bigger user base, more money, better or more expensive
lawyers or something similar.
The issue is simple, the guy invented the language, put some effort on it, published
a book, and now BigCo! is trying to bully him to abandon it just because they
couldn't find out some name which is not taken.
It's just not fair.

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Comment 85 by pranny:

In my opinion Google should rename their language

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Comment 86 by Indaglow:

I'm going to have blind faith in Google and just expect them to change the name 
...adding an apology to Mr Francis McCabe would be mighty nice too =D
hi reddit! ;)

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Comment 87 by jamesdaily:

#77: Why not start a company called "Google!" ?

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Comment 88 by AxelSanner:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_be_evil then ... don't

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Comment 89 by RoryHarvey:

Google: Don't be evil and steal this guy's programming language name just because
you're bigger than him.

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Comment 90 by thorsten.moeller.de:

+1 for renaming Google "Go" to "issue #9". This would prove that Google has a sense of 
humor and respect for others' ideas that came first (even the other did not register a 
trademark).

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Comment 91 by achambers629:

Google needs to sue this guy "fmccabe", shut him down and get his book revoked, he's
disrupting their services. Maybe they can find something in his gmail inbox or search
history to help them. I'm sure with their money they can find a technicality.

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Comment 92 by vanbargw:

@jsykari,
> May I humbly suggest "go2"?
Very good, but I would humbly suggest "go2c" since it is a C-like language (...and
say it fast ;-).

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Comment 93 by charles.chmj:

@94
NSFW hahahhaah

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Comment 94 by charles.chmj:

go++

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Comment 95 by rhfixer:

I like go2 and go2 variants, but I wouldn't use a language named after an
antipattern. Haha... :P
issue #9 sounds pretty good. I also vote for Goopy

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Comment 96 by cookiecaper:

It'd be better to do it now and leave this little dude alone than to continue the 
ambiguity. Google's Go is only a day old, not too much to lose if they change the 
name now.
Also, maybe little guy has some money, or will find some money, and litigate, as he's 
already expressed his displeasure at the collision.
I think it's best for everyone if Google just mans up and makes the change now. In 
the end it will only generate more publicity for both Gos, and everyone will be 
happy, and the threat of unpleasant ramifications (including bad PR and possible 
litigation) vanishes. There is no abundance of documentation or online help that will 
be derailed right now if Google makes the change, though I'd reckon a language that's 
been around for 10 years has some. 
Fingers crossed that Google will do it, though I doubt they will.

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Comment 97 by rnmboon:

Maybe they could change it to "going" or "gone"?

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Comment 98 by MEHColeman:

Call it Goe! Spell it with an 'e'

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Comment 99 by thorsten.moeller.de:

yet another proposal: I9
short form of "issue #9", reflects the fact that it was published first in 2009, and 
hopefully does not clash with any other name

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Comment 100 by YuviPanda:

6th for issue #9

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Comment 1001 by BleuFedora:

Let's see, Algol, B(CPL), C, C++, I know, make it D, the next one D++, then E, E++ and
so on or just skip right to 
G, G++ or "G:"
Google, shame on you!  Do the right thing.
Al

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Comment 1002 by zwkufo:

Let's "GO2!",haha

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Comment 1003 by zwkufo:

Let's "GO2!",haha

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Comment 1004 by okasion:

Still no answer from Google?
I suppose they're busy talking about this issue with their lawyers.... and that is 
very sad. 
Common Google, what if any of you would have done a programming language and some 
big company steals the name of your work?
Just change the name... you can clearly see that people who cares about this project 
do NOT want to learn nor program on a stealed programming language's name because 
most of us have strongly ethics for these kind of things.
Btw, you would really change this language to Issue9. Seriously.

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Comment 1005 by iain.david.stewart:

Maybe other programming languages need a name change now and then...
Ever worked with C# and decided you really don't like the language? Well, nickname 
it D-flat!
:)

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Comment 1006 by rd1rd2:

G0  (G-zero) makes sense to me - given the heritage of Plan 9, and that 0 comes after
9 (on keyboards, etc).  G0 - Grounded, Zero-nonsense.

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Comment 1007 by lucass:

So, will this be solved at all?

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Comment 1008 by suraj.shrestha:

That's Silly,
Have you heard of 
C C++ c#
You should be happy that people might confuse Go with your language..

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Comment 1009 by hmheducation:

That's Silly,
Have you heard of (Do you think people using it gets confused)
C C++ c#
You should be happy that people might confuse Go with your language..

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Comment 1010 by surajz.dev:

That's Silly,
Have you ever heard of (and do you think it causes confusion)
C C++ c#
You should be happy that people might confuse Go with your language..

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Comment 1011 by dsiembab@fullchannel.net:

+1 fmccabe
you idiots ( who disagree with changing the name of the language ) do not realize
that if you let google trample over someone elses languages name, then what else are
you going to let them get away with. Also you have to look at it from fmccabe point
of view working on a language for that long and in comes big corp don't care my
language will be named this no matter what. Bunch of tools. 
How about changing it to FAD, because after the marketing hype dies down that's all
the language will be.

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Comment 1012:

At this point it's more important to argue over what the name _is_, rather than what
it should be, and it looks like golang has won, based on searching for the various
proposed names with the appropriate search engine. For now.

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Comment 1013 by tedivm@tedivm.com:

Its ridiculous that this is still marked as new. Come on Google, at least acknowledge
the issue already!

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Comment 1014 by nurven:

going = Going Is No Go

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Comment 1015 by astronfo:

issue #9 FTW.

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Comment 1016 by thaddee.tyl:

The mere fact that this issue has not yet been deleted is an open acknowledgement 
from Google's Go team. But obviously, this team must have a lot of work already, with 
Golang getting public, so they are not likely to address this problem till, say,
mid-2010.

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Comment 1017 by aliloko:

JSYK: the Fan language changed to Fantom just to be more Google-friendly.
Change the name to Issue9 or golang, problem solved.

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Comment 1018 by codedread:

Not that this is something to be voted on, but I like:
G0 (g-zero) and
Issue9

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Comment 1019 by codedread:

I also think "nuts" might be an ok name, since you already have go-nuts

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Comment 1020 by zorionk:

Status: New
More than 1000 comments...
BTW :
I like what you have done with this new programming language but I would like a new name.

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Comment 1021 by ke3he@me.com:

GOB   (GO language, revision B) or shortened to GB?

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Comment 1022 by monkey.instinct:

+1 issue #9  "go" is not a good name.

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Comment 1023 by attilaolah:

-1 for issue #9 here.
I have to agree with Comment 953 by dschauer, "Go" != "Go!". Besides, "goog" is 
already the name of Google's Closure package.
Anyway, it's the name of the programming language, it's not a company or organization 
or a legal entity. Is it a crime to use the same name? 'Go' and write your own 
programming language and name it 'go', so what?

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Comment 1024 by chris.tilly:

This issue has been sitting here for a while. It would be nice to at least see some
acknowledgment that Google has seen it. If popular vote counts for anything, I believe 
that Google should change the name, both because it's already been used, and 
impossible to search for.

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Comment 1025 by zbowling:

Yes. This needs to be resolved Google.

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Comment 1026 by sargavarju:

comments 953 and 1026
observe, that you akso need to speak, not only write
if "Go" != "Go!"
then "chess" != "ches"
and "guns" != "gunz"
and "fuck" != "f!uck" != "fsck"
and "u bich" != "you bitch"
please grow up, and choose a mature name with a mature procedure.

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Comment 1027 by loldrup:

one more thing to notice is that one can't do a search on Google specific for the Go!
language: When searching for Go!, Google transforms it into "Go". Also, it doesn't
help putting it like this: "Go!" - its the same result.

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Comment 1028 by markus.freericks:

Strange that there was no outcry in 1987 when Larry Wall stole the name of the "PEARL" 
programming language (he also tried to hide this blatant theft by dropping a 
character).

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Comment 1029 by snotskie:

"Golang" or "Lango"
These.

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Comment 1030 by itgchris:

Go sounds very bad. issue #9 sounds much better and yo could use the command i9 to
compile. but when they didn't change the name i would not program with it... ^,~

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Comment 1031 by tolkiendili:

issue #9 is a great name!

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Comment 1032 by alisson.palmeira:

"Go" is the eighth letter in Esperanto 
(en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Esperanto/Appendix_A#Kolacio_.28Collation.29)
How about the next ones: "ĝo" or "ho"?

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Comment 1033 by David.Sackmary:

I grew up with a guy named Michael Jackson, and he felt kind of the same way.
Imagine if Google had chosen "Go" first.  Wouldn't you be wishing you could have "Go!" 
anyway? 
You did get your claimstake.  Even your Wiki shows up first.  That's how I got here.

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Comment 1034 by snotskie:

I agree with "issue #9"
With a shorthand "i9"
Maybe even file extension ".i9"

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Comment 1035 by snotskie:

Lets settle this.
Link to poll below:
http://micropoll.com/t/KDY6rZ9JY

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Comment 1036 by snotskie:

I also added an unproposed name to the list: "Gordon"
After the name of the go gopher mascot.
(At least I believe this to be his name, seeing as my "~/Golang/doc" contains a folder 
by that name filled with images of the lil' guy).

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Comment 1037 by vigacmoe:

G!

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Comment 1038 by capitaineglacon:

I agree with Go != Go!

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Comment 1039 by rooter.kun:

#1039
snotskie, it's not our decision to make
also, why didn't you include "don't change the name" option?
C, C++, C#
Go, Go! 
#219
That is why it's even more confusing
Don't use "don't be evil" against google just because you have another view on the
matter. I also don't think it's fortunate to use such a similar name, but it's quite
common while using short names...
Shame on google for leaving this issue unanswered for this long.

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Comment 1040 by absento.esperanto:

If there were a god, and he was a good god, and his name was "God", and he wrote a 
programming language named "Go", what would your first words to him be?  Stop?

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Comment 1041 by chenkenichi12:

I have to put in my vote for "issue #9". This thread is already the third result on 
Google for "issue #9".

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Comment 1042 by snotskie:

"issue #9" does seem to be leading, but we are going to need *much* more
than just 15 votes on something in order for this to make *any* kind of impact
(or at least deserve attention from Google)
Vote here: http://www.micropoll.com/akira/mpview/773766-223833
Get the object code from here: http://www.micropoll.com/akira/mpresult/773766-223833
And post the code in your blogs/sites/etc..

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Comment 1043 by robertmarkharrison:

call it gng!, for go's not go!

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Comment 1044 by robertmarkharrison:

or should that be gng's not go

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Comment 1045 by bambishope:

I like the name go. I guess if it has a negative impact on McCabe's language then the
name should be changed. There is a slight difference between go and Go! and
completely different purposes. Googles go in not trying to muscle out Go! If the
issue is one of fairness how unfair will it be if Google keeps the name?

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Comment 1046 by thesimpsonian:

I like "El Goog"!

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Comment 1047:

That poll is biased - there is no "do not rename" option.

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Comment 1048 by snotskie:

Poll updated, [do not rename] added.
Sorry, I completely forgot to include that

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Comment 1049 by fsjunior:

For the fairness, fmccabe need to make a search engine called "Google!".

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Comment 1050 by luaxcn:

I don't think 'go' is a good name.

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Comment 1051 by bigolewannabe:

I've heard issue #9 as a suggestion and I like that.

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Comment 1052 by dleslie:

Here's another vote for issue #9.
It just sounds far more interesting than Go. issue #9 has some mystique and intrigue
to it, whereas Go sounds like a dusty, dull attempt at adding motion to a concept.

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Comment 1053 by pankaj.jangid:

Hey Google. No announcement yet. We are waiting.

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Comment 1054 by snotskie:

I was googling the other day, something around the lines of "wiki [programming??]", 
when the second link I saw was the one for the Go! programming language.
So, I ask again for people to link these in their blogs/forum/Y!A/etc.. posts:
Vote here: http://www.micropoll.com/akira/mpview/773766-223833
Get the object code from here: http://www.micropoll.com/akira/mpresult/773766-223833
Get the word out about this issue. You can see the sudden appearance of it here:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=Issue+9&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all
Also, post a link here for every major mention that you make of it.
1057 posts and no word from Google. :/

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Comment 1055 by charle.demers:

I liked "go", it sounded nice. Still, one good point in renaming it to something more 
unique would be that it's kind of hard to get relevant results when you search the Web 
for "go", for example, try "go print()" or even better: "go fork()". :-)

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Comment 1056 by marcelo.escobal:

Lot of time passed. Google guys are not changing anything. Tiobe named it
"Programming Language of the year". It magically jumped into Tiobe Ranking! 
Guys: change the name. "issue #9" seems appropriate, nice and clever. +1 for this.

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Comment 1057 by eternal.fx:

"issue #9" is perfect. Searching for related documentation would be also much easier
because of a bit more unique name.

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Comment 1058 by pablohn6:

GoLang is the best name for the "new" language.

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Comment 1059 by denyqmartins@uol.com.br:

Do Lang

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Comment 1060 by xjl.99jsj:

G1: Android phone
G3: GAE
G4: TiSP
G5: Waves
G6: Chrome
G9: issue #9

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Comment 1061 by joseph.wecker:

+1 for "issue #9"  Everything has been said already here, but the longer the delay the
harder it will be to rename.  And there's no doubt that it needs to be renamed.

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Comment 1062 by aliloko:

Come on. Do not destroy the lifework of fmccabe.

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Comment 1063 by claudio.naoto:

"Issue9". It is a name that remember "Plan9" and better to search.

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Comment 1064 by themusicalguy:

I think Issue9 (i9 for the compiler) would be a great choice!
It seems to really fit with the sense of fun that Google likes to promote in its 
workplace. It gives credit to Plan9 and it also, it really is very convenient to type.
I like companies with a sense of humour!

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Comment 1065 by Aub676:

issue #9 for the win.

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Comment 1066 by kevwil:

Boss says to learn a new language this year. I'm tempted to pick this one, but not until 
the name is changed. May have to pick Scala instead.
+1 for Issue9

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Comment 1067 by arsenepark:

How about "GOAL"? Meaning enthusiasm, victory, happy...

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Comment 1068 by droden:

It’s amazing how much time it takes for people to understand that there is no voting
involved here.

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Comment 1069 by jin.leona:

The name 'go' will be very hard to google when have issues = =.
e.g. awesome window manager...

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Comment 1070 by jin.leona:

Forgot to mention, I vote 'issue #9' !

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Comment 1071 by gengyong:

"issue #9" is a cool name!

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Comment 1072 by aigleflem:

I love issue #9, just like Plan 9 ;-)

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Comment 1073 by newptcai:

I love "issue #9", it's a cool name.

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Comment 1074 by karuna.murti:

come on google, at least let us know something.
do you have to wait for lawsuit?

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Comment 1075 by gothedistance.crs:

"boooooo" to google for not doing their due diligence.  So much for "do no evil"

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Comment 1076 by lishali12345:

Google, come on, give some words

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Comment 1077 by Zealot0630:

"The Go Programming Language" ==> GPL

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Comment 1078 by fuzzybyte:

I'd prefer lang9 over issue9.
as long as it's something unique and searchable..

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Comment 1079 by Frank.Rast:

Just change the name google. Do not make it worse.

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Comment 1080 by wt345qa:

googling for information about "go" language is already a big problem. google should 
name it "the" language or "language" language to make this situation even worse.
btw, "issue9" is awesome name

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Comment 1081 by matoltalk:

I do not think Google needs to change the language.
Go! What a creative, passionate, dynamic name. Google is simply the most perfect 
interpretation of the language.

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Comment 1082 by jordigh:

C'mon, Google, do it already. "issue #9" is an awesome name, proves you still have a
sense of humour, is very uniquifiable, and would abbreviate nicely to i9.

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Comment 1083 by Frederic.Dupre:

So, go is the language written by fmccabbe. Google language so rapidely called go is at
this moment the "no name language". This is a paradox if I considere etymology. So I
troll with you happily and purpose you "paradox9".
+1 for issue9

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Comment 1084 by hemilton.m:

Why google dont calle your language as G++?

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Comment 1085 by lost.goblin:

Everyone complaining about 'Go' not being a searchable name should use:
http://go-lang.cat-v.org/go-search

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Comment 1086 by guidoderosa:

+1 for issue9 (and *.i9 as a file extension )
Also, the coincidence with Plan9 is really striking ;-)

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Comment 1087 by cheetomonster:

I love, love the direction the language is heading.  But I agree the name has to go.
I'm not too sure about "issue9", but it certainly searches better than "go".  (@1089:
good info, thanks for the link!)

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Comment 1088 by russell.bernhardt:

Why are you all still talking about this? It's been seven months...

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Comment 1089 by ranguvar13:

Because Google still hasn't fixed the bloody problem.

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Comment 1090 by eriflo:

Wow, still haven't solved the issue.

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Comment 1091 by akosma:

Will Google ever bring an answer to this problem? I don't think so. They should do it
just for their own business: searching for info about a language with such a name is
simply impossible.

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Comment 1092 by zbowling:

the only reason why I'm not using go is that google doesn't know how to google.

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Comment 1093:

The naming similarity is unfortunate. However, there are many computing
products and services named Go. In the 11 months since our release, there
has been minimal confusion of the two languages, so we are closing this
issue.

Status changed to Unfortunate.

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Comment 1094 by jrobbins@google.com:

Labels changed: added restrict-addissuecomment-commit.

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CL https://golang.org/cl/37025 mentions this issue.