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Google's new "Go" language

Posted Nov 11, 2009 19:06 UTC (Wed) by yodacallmesome (guest, #59853)
In reply to: Google's new "Go" language by lmb
Parent article: Google's new "Go" language

Not only do better languages already exist, but Google is using the name of an already established language.
See http://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=9

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Posted Nov 11, 2009 19:29 UTC (Wed) by tjc (subscriber, #137) [Link]

I suppose they could get silly and call it gng (Go's not Go!).

Google's new "Go" language

Posted Nov 11, 2009 21:55 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

My IQ dropped fifty points just reading that page. Ye gods there are some
utter idiots out there.

(Still it's ironic that hackers employed by Google have come up with a
language with a name so difficult to google for!)