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Re:DeaDBeeF: The Ultimate Music Player by GuB-42 on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @01:13PM (#43028049)
I think that "Go" (the programming language) takes the crown.

It is one of the most common words in the English language. It is also one of the most popular board games in the world, and it has nothing to do with it. It can mean plenty of other things, just look at the Wikipedia disambiguation page. It is enough of a problem that it is often called "golang" to make it more searchable.

And ironically, it is made by Google.

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Re:DeaDBeeF: The Ultimate Music Player by Lammy on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @01:55PM (#43028476)
The best part is that it wasn't even an original name within the domain of programming languages: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/9
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Re:DeaDBeeF: The Ultimate Music Player by nayuki on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @01:18PM (#43028091)
Agreed that Go is a terrible language name. Just go use Go to make a game of go while riding the GO train.

C is pretty terrible too, being a popular and extremely influential language with a one-letter name.

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