“I have already used the name for my programming language” (2009)

Re:“I have already used the name for my programming language... by nkozyra on Thursday August 06, 2015 @10:14AM (#10016538)

If the metric is Google-ability," then so are a lot of other languages:

C D Go Julia R Rust

Google's gotten a lot better when it comes to searches for C++ (formerly always wrote 'cpp'), Go ('golang'), C#, etc. But when you combine a specific search and the language it's still ambiguous for a lot of these languages.

Forever the discord between branding and specificity.

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Re:“I have already used the name for my programming language... by mikeash on Thursday August 06, 2015 @10:23AM (#10016612)

I have long advocated for switching away from normal pronounceable names and to UUIDs for everything. For example, Google's Go could be CFF77685-513C-4B4D-82EC-81C171D52E82 and the older one could be 7EFD13ED-BF35-4547-9701-6E13F0D8911E. If we renamed C to F51AD0F2-8159-4515-BE14-5E9D9AE3372B it would become much easier to search for.

Sincerely, 57C1566F-1DA9-4AAB-9F88-E31C4B950DD6

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Re:“I have already used the name for my programming language... by _wwz4 on Thursday August 06, 2015 @10:36AM (#10016708)

I agree with you, but actually, 57C1566F-1DA9-4AAB-9F88-E31C4B950DD6 is my UUID.

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Re:“I have already used the name for my programming language... by mikeash on Thursday August 06, 2015 @10:43AM (#10016767)

Then I'm afraid we must fight to the death to see who has the rightful claim to it, as described in the secret provisions of RFC 4122.

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Re:“I have already used the name for my programming language... by jameshart on Thursday August 06, 2015 @10:54AM (#10016849)

The first rule of RFC 4122 is that implementers MUST NOT talk about RFC 4122.

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Re:“I have already used the name for my programming language... by ectoplasm on Friday August 07, 2015 @12:36AM (#10020945)

Which RFC 4122 are you not talking about, the one that came first or the one that came before?

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Re:“I have already used the name for my programming language... by tempodox on Thursday August 06, 2015 @11:04AM (#10016927)

Yes, trial by combat is the way to go. No pun intended.

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