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On the one hand, it's kind of hard to claim two letters.

On the other hand, Rob, Ken, et. al. really could have done a little Googling around before they chose to name their language after an existing language, no matter how obscure.

It strikes me as a little bit evil not to capitulate, particularly if the motivation not to do so is "this would really hurt our project so screw off little math guy" as opposed to "we think we are right and this name is fair game."

If the Google team thinks this is a non-issue, I'd like to hear some logic.



I dunno, I've heard of some pretty popular languages that only have one letter in the name.


You know, I take it back.

If C# is fair on top of C, then Go ought to be fair on top of Go!

Well-played :)

I guess I just wonder now why he added the bang at all.


One of the Unix room's Bell labs slogan was "think of a name no-one can market"

"Plan 9 From Bell Labs" being canonical




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