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Re:I moderate /r/kafka; people mistake it as a subreddit abo... by billfruit on Sunday November 21, 2021 @12:57PM (#29298196)
Even something like "c" does not look like a good name anymore. For example searching for something C related often turns up hundreds of links for C++, C# many of them not relevant to the search topic.

Also choosing names with non-obvious pronunciation is also a peeve, sometimes it can become a marker between those who know how to pronounce it and those who don't. For example Godot.

Re:I moderate /r/kafka; people mistake it as a subreddit abo... by jeroenhd on Sunday November 21, 2021 @01:12PM (#29298319)
> Even something like "c" does not look like a good name anymore. For example searching for something C related often turns up hundreds of links for C++, C# many of them not relevant to the search topic.

That's not a naming problem as much as it's a search engine problem. Search engines ignore anything that's not remotely alphabetic so for the longest time Google saw "C++ C#" as "C C". More and more characters are taken into account when searching these days, but it's still very error prone today.

If anything, C# was a mistake because it was developed after the first search engines entered the web. Then again, this was made by the same company that developed frameworks called "COM", "COM+" and ".NET". The names C and C++ were chosen way before this could have ever been perceived as a problem, because only lunatics and tinfoil hats could have predicted the internet in its current form all the way back in 1983.

In my experience, adding a revision (C99, C11, C17) to a search query often gets more relevant results specifically for C actual. For C++ the search term cpp always works for me. It's a bit of a pain to teach yourself to use, but after a while you start to get used to it.

Re:I moderate /r/kafka; people mistake it as a subreddit abo... by not2b on Sunday November 21, 2021 @06:25PM (#29300827)
"c programming language" works fine.
Re:I moderate /r/kafka; people mistake it as a subreddit abo... by techdragon on Sunday November 21, 2021 @01:04PM (#29298246)
Like the “Go” programming language. Only Google could have gotten away with this name since to be honest I was pretty sure it used to be a “do not brother indexing”/“stop word” back in the day. So I honestly suspect Google had to alter their search engine to search for the programming language they invented just because they made it impossible to search for because of how bad the name is.
Re:I moderate /r/kafka; people mistake it as a subreddit abo... by bee_rider on Sunday November 21, 2021 @01:24PM (#29298424)
C gets a pass because it is older than search engines, but Go was a pretty bad name.
Re:I moderate /r/kafka; people mistake it as a subreddit abo... by PeterisP on Sunday November 21, 2021 @02:49PM (#29299099)
For me it seems like that the common workarounds (searching for "golang" "csharp" etc) make it not really a problem.
Re:I moderate /r/kafka; people mistake it as a subreddit abo... by ectopod on Sunday November 21, 2021 @02:16PM (#29298862)
When Go was new they recommended using "golang" for web searches. I still do though it sounds like it's unnecessary now.
Re:I moderate /r/kafka; people mistake it as a subreddit abo... by chrsig on Sunday November 21, 2021 @02:34PM (#29298988)
there's also a non trivial amount of zealots that then complain when people refer to the language as "golang"...it's not correct, but hardly surprising either
Re:I moderate /r/kafka; people mistake it as a subreddit abo... by marcosdumay on Sunday November 21, 2021 @03:44PM (#29299527)
At this point clang and rcran should as well change their official names. Golang has better possibilities on the horizon, but it wouldn't hurt either.
Re:I moderate /r/kafka; people mistake it as a subreddit abo... by matsemann on Sunday November 21, 2021 @01:53PM (#29298675)
They did alter it for google+, at least.
Re:I moderate /r/kafka; people mistake it as a subreddit abo... by webmaven on Sunday November 21, 2021 @02:18PM (#29298878)
> They did alter it for google+, at least.

Yes, and nerfed the + search operator in the process.