> I hardly think this qualifies as stomping on his work.
He created a programming language called Go, worked on it for 10 years, published papers and books on the subject, a team from Google creates a programming language, calls it Go, and essentially tells him to go fuck himself when he points it out.
I do think it qualifies.
> Not to mention that a lot of people would have never heard of his language if Google didn't come out with their own Go.
Oh then I guess that makes it ok. Thanks everybody, ethics are irrelevant, please move along the show is over.
In any case, it's now pretty certain nobody will ever hear of his language ever again.
He created a programming language called Go, worked on it for 10 years, published papers and books on the subject
Yes, he worked hard. That is unfortunately completely irrelevant. His language is not widely used and was largely a one-man operation. So it didn't get much notice.
a team from Google creates a programming language, calls it Go, and essentially tells him to go fuck himself when he points it out.
Changing the name costs time/money and Google was already using Go in a bunch of places internally when they released it. They decided it wasn't worth it. And 'go' is one of the most common words in the English language. The guy didn't trademark it. Tough luck.
Oh then I guess that makes it ok.
Well that's not what I meant but it was probably a dick move for me to imply he had other motives when complaining about Go. Go! didn't even have a Wikipedia page until after Google released Go.
This was not related to my original criticism of they OPs hyperbole, just an added point. Google's naming collision is the best thing that could have happened to Go!
If Google hadn't named their language "Go" I probably never would have heard of his language to begin with.
Personally "Go!" and "Google Go" are different enough to me that I wouldn't have trouble differentiating. I don't have trouble differentiating Digital Mars D and Dtrace D, either.
Actually, as a non-user of both, I didn't know there was a difference; until your comment, I though Sun had used the other D for dtrace. I know the difference between Java and Javascript, but even those languages' names continue to confuse people (usually non-programmers). Not to stomp on Go!, but one significant difference here is that both Java and Javascript have wide user-bases.
I believe Firefox went through two name-changes after the project's initial kick-off, but the Mozilla Foundation is hardly a 900-pound gorilla. This kind of sucks for Go!'s creator (and was a bit sloppy for Google Go's creators), but it's hard to tell Google where to sit.
He created a programming language called Go, worked on it for 10 years, published papers and books on the subject, a team from Google creates a programming language, calls it Go, and essentially tells him to go fuck himself when he points it out.
I do think it qualifies.
> Not to mention that a lot of people would have never heard of his language if Google didn't come out with their own Go.
Oh then I guess that makes it ok. Thanks everybody, ethics are irrelevant, please move along the show is over.
In any case, it's now pretty certain nobody will ever hear of his language ever again.