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    raddevus
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    I just saw this newly released book, Hands-On Software Engineering with Golang: Move beyond basic programming to design and build reliable software with clean code: [^] Are Go and Golang the same thing? I looked it up on wikipedia:

    Quote:

    Go (incorrectly known as Golang,[14]) is a statically typed, compiled programming language designed at Google[15] by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson.[12] Go is syntactically similar to C, but with memory safety, garbage collection, structural typing,[6] and CSP-style concurrency.[16]

    So I checked out the reference from the official Go site and look:

    official site says:

    Is the language called Go or Golang? The language is called Go. The "golang" moniker arose because the web site is golang.org, not go.org, which was not available to us. Many use the golang name, though, and it is handy as a label. For instance, the Twitter tag for the language is "#golang". The language's name is just plain Go, regardless.

    I'm glad we straightened this little issue up. :rolleyes:

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      I just saw this newly released book, Hands-On Software Engineering with Golang: Move beyond basic programming to design and build reliable software with clean code: [^] Are Go and Golang the same thing? I looked it up on wikipedia:

      Quote:

      Go (incorrectly known as Golang,[14]) is a statically typed, compiled programming language designed at Google[15] by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson.[12] Go is syntactically similar to C, but with memory safety, garbage collection, structural typing,[6] and CSP-style concurrency.[16]

      So I checked out the reference from the official Go site and look:

      official site says:

      Is the language called Go or Golang? The language is called Go. The "golang" moniker arose because the web site is golang.org, not go.org, which was not available to us. Many use the golang name, though, and it is handy as a label. For instance, the Twitter tag for the language is "#golang". The language's name is just plain Go, regardless.

      I'm glad we straightened this little issue up. :rolleyes:

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      k5054
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      At least with golang, you can search for it, and be reasonably sure that you're going to find things about the go languange. Searching for just go, on the other hand ...

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      • R raddevus

        I just saw this newly released book, Hands-On Software Engineering with Golang: Move beyond basic programming to design and build reliable software with clean code: [^] Are Go and Golang the same thing? I looked it up on wikipedia:

        Quote:

        Go (incorrectly known as Golang,[14]) is a statically typed, compiled programming language designed at Google[15] by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson.[12] Go is syntactically similar to C, but with memory safety, garbage collection, structural typing,[6] and CSP-style concurrency.[16]

        So I checked out the reference from the official Go site and look:

        official site says:

        Is the language called Go or Golang? The language is called Go. The "golang" moniker arose because the web site is golang.org, not go.org, which was not available to us. Many use the golang name, though, and it is handy as a label. For instance, the Twitter tag for the language is "#golang". The language's name is just plain Go, regardless.

        I'm glad we straightened this little issue up. :rolleyes:

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        Super Lloyd
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        I am confused by your confusion! :O Like, everybody does that, for example: :D [https://csharplang.com/\](https://csharplang.com/) [Home - D Programming Language](https://dlang.org/) [TypeScript - JavaScript that scales.](https://www.typescriptlang.org/)

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        • R raddevus

          I just saw this newly released book, Hands-On Software Engineering with Golang: Move beyond basic programming to design and build reliable software with clean code: [^] Are Go and Golang the same thing? I looked it up on wikipedia:

          Quote:

          Go (incorrectly known as Golang,[14]) is a statically typed, compiled programming language designed at Google[15] by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson.[12] Go is syntactically similar to C, but with memory safety, garbage collection, structural typing,[6] and CSP-style concurrency.[16]

          So I checked out the reference from the official Go site and look:

          official site says:

          Is the language called Go or Golang? The language is called Go. The "golang" moniker arose because the web site is golang.org, not go.org, which was not available to us. Many use the golang name, though, and it is handy as a label. For instance, the Twitter tag for the language is "#golang". The language's name is just plain Go, regardless.

          I'm glad we straightened this little issue up. :rolleyes:

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          raddevus wrote:

          I'm glad we straightened this little issue up.

          This will make a huge difference to my lifestyle. I do feel compelled, though, to comment that if the idiots who gave it such a fruggin' stupid name were to have named it better, there wouldn't be any need for them to get pathetically snooty about it. Maybe I'm getting jaded, but I'm not feeling any surprise that the company that declares itself to be the world's greatest expert in Internet search doesn't have a clue how to give their products names that are searchable. They might as well have called it "the" or "I".

          I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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            raddevus wrote:

            I'm glad we straightened this little issue up.

            This will make a huge difference to my lifestyle. I do feel compelled, though, to comment that if the idiots who gave it such a fruggin' stupid name were to have named it better, there wouldn't be any need for them to get pathetically snooty about it. Maybe I'm getting jaded, but I'm not feeling any surprise that the company that declares itself to be the world's greatest expert in Internet search doesn't have a clue how to give their products names that are searchable. They might as well have called it "the" or "I".

            I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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            Actually, if I Google "Go", the first two results are "The Go Programming Language" and "Downloads - The Go Programming Language". The world's greatest experts in Internet search make sure it's searchable :rolleyes: With Bing and DuckDuckGo it's a little further down, but still on the first page. Of course those results are all custom made to my profile and I'm a programmer.

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            • R raddevus

              I just saw this newly released book, Hands-On Software Engineering with Golang: Move beyond basic programming to design and build reliable software with clean code: [^] Are Go and Golang the same thing? I looked it up on wikipedia:

              Quote:

              Go (incorrectly known as Golang,[14]) is a statically typed, compiled programming language designed at Google[15] by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson.[12] Go is syntactically similar to C, but with memory safety, garbage collection, structural typing,[6] and CSP-style concurrency.[16]

              So I checked out the reference from the official Go site and look:

              official site says:

              Is the language called Go or Golang? The language is called Go. The "golang" moniker arose because the web site is golang.org, not go.org, which was not available to us. Many use the golang name, though, and it is handy as a label. For instance, the Twitter tag for the language is "#golang". The language's name is just plain Go, regardless.

              I'm glad we straightened this little issue up. :rolleyes:

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              In any case, I prefer Google's follow-up - Ogle (or should that be Oglelang?).

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              • Sander RosselS Sander Rossel

                Actually, if I Google "Go", the first two results are "The Go Programming Language" and "Downloads - The Go Programming Language". The world's greatest experts in Internet search make sure it's searchable :rolleyes: With Bing and DuckDuckGo it's a little further down, but still on the first page. Of course those results are all custom made to my profile and I'm a programmer.

                Best, Sander sanderrossel.com Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly

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                Greg Utas
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                The first result isn't a Wikipedia entry about the oriental board game?! Indeed, Google must be "tweaking" the results. At least this one is a little more innocuous than their other "tweaks".

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                • S Super Lloyd

                  I am confused by your confusion! :O Like, everybody does that, for example: :D [https://csharplang.com/\](https://csharplang.com/) [Home - D Programming Language](https://dlang.org/) [TypeScript - JavaScript that scales.](https://www.typescriptlang.org/)

                  A new .NET Serializer All in one Menu-Ribbon Bar Taking over the world since 1371!

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                  raddevus
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                  Super Lloyd wrote:

                  Like, everybody does that, for example: :-D https://csharplang.com/ Home - D Programming Language TypeScript - JavaScript that scales.

                  I never noticed. But i'm aloof about things I don't notice. :)

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                    raddevus wrote:

                    I'm glad we straightened this little issue up.

                    This will make a huge difference to my lifestyle. I do feel compelled, though, to comment that if the idiots who gave it such a fruggin' stupid name were to have named it better, there wouldn't be any need for them to get pathetically snooty about it. Maybe I'm getting jaded, but I'm not feeling any surprise that the company that declares itself to be the world's greatest expert in Internet search doesn't have a clue how to give their products names that are searchable. They might as well have called it "the" or "I".

                    I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                    Mark_Wallace wrote:

                    I do feel compelled, though, to comment that if the idiots who gave it such a fruggin' stupid name were to have named it better, there wouldn't be any need for them to get pathetically snooty about it.

                    I felt the same way. Of course, since C has been around a long time I give them a pass. I was just genuinely confused about the name because I see stuff about Go and then rarely see this Golang thing. I wasn't sure if it was a script based upon Go or something. You know? Like JavaScript...based upon Java. :rolleyes: I know it's not!!! :laugh: Please do not call or send letters. I know Java And JavaScript are as related as Ham and Hamburgers. :)

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