Go programming language

November 10, 2009 (at the time of writing - yesterday) Google announced the release of the Go programming language . The language is very simple in terms of syntax and some features of working with memory, but still full-fledged. Here is hellovord, who cares:

import "fmt"

func main() {
fmt.Printf("Hello, 世界\n")
}


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This is all great and the language is very interesting, but this discussion is no less interesting: in it, Francis McCabe asks Google to rename his brainchild, because over the Go! He worked for the last 10 years, published a book and did not touch anyone at all.

The situation is twofold. First, the name is still slightly different - there is an exclamation point in the version of McKub. But it is still strange that Google did this: if consciously, then why? And if not consciously, then they really did not try to enter “go programming language” into their own search engine, where, along with Bing, the link to Go! 2003 appears on the first page of issue?

The debate has grown and still not waiting for Google's answer, people are starting to invent new names for the language - after all, someone will have to rename! There are interesting options (Google Programming Language = GPL, Go-Away, G-Spot, G ++ and so on), but the best, according to most, is to rename the search giant “Issue 9” - the title of the 9th issue raised in the Issues section on the compiler download page, the very discussion where Francis McKabe appeared.