Google's got a new language... Go...

[Giles Orr]

2009/11/11 Christopher Browne <cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>:
> Google's language...
> http://golang.org/
>
> Note that two of the creators are Ken Thompson and Rob Pike...
>
> http://golang.org/doc/go_lang_faq.html
>
> It seems to have some "Plan 9" flavouring to it.

I'm sure many of us read Slashdot, but I found this interesting:

http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/11/12/1256234/Google-Under-Fire-For-Calling-Their-Language-Go

So did Google not do their research on the name?  Did they choose to
ignore the existing language of the same name?  And will they have the
decency to rename, with all the headache that implies immediately
after a launch?

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