Go: "I have already used the name for MY programming language" (2009)

https://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=9

by adriancooney • 13 years ago

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tzs• 13 years ago

To be fair, the first user of the name was a bit obscure. Surely you don't expect Google to do some kind of search before using the name?

kenrick• 13 years ago

lol for the first response...."Gone"... made my day.

asperous• 13 years ago

I laughed at this:

    Status: 	Unfortunate
    Closed: 	 Oct 2010

monsterix• 13 years ago

I feel sorry for the hacker who spent 10 years building his own 'Go' language, writing a book about it only to lose it all to some giant company which did not care enough to research before naming their own project. Is there no way to protect the ownership of original project and change that "unfortunate" status to some fortune?

dragonwriter• 13 years ago

The ownership of the original project is unaffected. Names, OTOH, aren't owned unless they are in certain special protected classes -- e.g., trademarks. And its hardly the only case of duplication in programming language names. (IIRC, there are at least two specific languages as well as a class of languages all called "D".)

saalweachter• 13 years ago

That's the problem with global variables. Eventually all the short names for taken, and you start stomping all over things you didn't even know existed.

jamhan• 13 years ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go!_%28programming_language%29

Go: "I have already used the name for *MY* programming language" (2009)

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