Re:“I have already used the name for my programming language...
by fiatjaf on Thursday August 06, 2015 @01:50PM
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I just googled "go" in an incognito window and got 10 results referring to "Goiás", a brazilian political division.
But that's not exactly the problem. The problem comes up when you're searching for more specific things. Try, for example "go reduce function" (just came up with this example now, I'm sure my argument will be better if you search for an actually real-world edge case) and you'll probably get Go results, but I also get PHP, Javascript and Python results.
If, instead, I searched for any of these languages + "reduce function" I would only get relevant results.
But that's not exactly the problem. The problem comes up when you're searching for more specific things. Try, for example "go reduce function" (just came up with this example now, I'm sure my argument will be better if you search for an actually real-world edge case) and you'll probably get Go results, but I also get PHP, Javascript and Python results.
If, instead, I searched for any of these languages + "reduce function" I would only get relevant results.
Swift is even worse.