Re:Gopher Reading List: A curated selection of blog posts on Go
by kuschku on Sunday March 04, 2018 @12:55PM
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Sure, that’s why society has no trademark laws and all names are reused all the time, and we have hundreds of companies all called Apple that make products called iPhones?
Society has realized that having unique names is required to find things and avoid confusion.
Most people in the community will happily refer to it as 'golang' when talking about the language, and in that context, it is obvious what a gopher is.
If you think this is annoying, well, there are a lot of things you can be annoyed about: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/42480/words-with...
In this scenario, we should stop using 'run' to describe program execution and avoid the use of the word 'set' in computer science. Think that's likely to happen?