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The Go language's first commit (1972)

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Re: The Go language's first commit (1972)

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Post by throwawaygjdbsj »

habibur wrote: post #9

This was done as a joke. Go was released. Someone else claimed he owns the name "Go" for a programming language. As a proof his github "go language" creation and commit date was shown. This wasn't fake, was real. Google surely won't give up for this reason. Few days later google extended their go commit to 1972. Preceding that author's date by a long shot. Guess you can find the news coverage from that time if you se…

Shitty joke. It was bought up in issue 9 in the golang repo and was a pretty big deal at the time.

I still think they should have renamed go to "nine". Alas Google had no problem just steamrolling the guy and then pissing on ten years of his work with a go fuck yourself in the form of this commit.

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/9

Re: The Go language's first commit (1972)

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Post by Jabbles »

habibur wrote: post #9

This was done as a joke. Go was released. Someone else claimed he owns the name "Go" for a programming language. As a proof his github "go language" creation and commit date was shown. This wasn't fake, was real. Google surely won't give up for this reason. Few days later google extended their go commit to 1972. Preceding that author's date by a long shot. Guess you can find the news coverage from that time if you se…

Something about the way git works suggests to me that Google did not in fact just change the timestamp on the first commit in their repository.

Re: The Go language's first commit (1972)

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Post by samhw »

mrdoe wrote: post #18

Where are the cool free projects? This repography is yet another product that wants my money.

Yes, this is actually not unusual. People need food, water, shelter, and suchlike in order to survive, and so they exchange their labour for goods and services. Money is a helpful token now rather widely used in this bartering process.

I know it's quite common in the web development community to take a lot of freely provided code which took immense labour to write, and then stitch it together, in a way that requires very little skill or effort, in order to sell the result - but this isn't the norm in the world at large.

Re: The Go language's first commit (1972)

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Post by IshKebab »

habibur wrote: post #9

This was done as a joke. Go was released. Someone else claimed he owns the name "Go" for a programming language. As a proof his github "go language" creation and commit date was shown. This wasn't fake, was real. Google surely won't give up for this reason. Few days later google extended their go commit to 1972. Preceding that author's date by a long shot. Guess you can find the news coverage from that time if you se…

Ha sneaky. They messed it up a bit though by putting it in a `macho` directory when Mach-O didn't exist until 1985.

Re: The Go language's first commit (1972)

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Post by Strom »

Jabbles wrote: post #22
habibur wrote: post #9

This was done as a joke. Go was released. Someone else claimed he owns the name "Go" for a programming language. As a proof his github "go language" creation and commit date was shown. This wasn't fake, was real. Google surely won't give up for this reason. Few days later google extended their go commit to 1972. Preceding that author's date by a long shot. Guess you can find the news coverage from that time if you se…

Something about the way git works suggests to me that Google did not in fact just change the timestamp on the first commit in their repository.

Force push works just fine for changing timestamps.

Re: The Go language's first commit (1972)

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Post by bargle0 »

throwawaygjdbsj wrote: post #21
habibur wrote: post #9

This was done as a joke. Go was released. Someone else claimed he owns the name "Go" for a programming language. As a proof his github "go language" creation and commit date was shown. This wasn't fake, was real. Google surely won't give up for this reason. Few days later google extended their go commit to 1972. Preceding that author's date by a long shot. Guess you can find the news coverage from that time if you se…

Shitty joke. It was bought up in issue 9 in the golang repo and was a pretty big deal at the time. I still think they should have renamed go to "nine". Alas Google had no problem just steamrolling the guy and then pissing on ten years of his work with a go fuck yourself in the form of this commit. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/9

Not unlike Apple steamrolling the Swift language from ANL.

https://www.anl.gov/mcs/swift-fast-parallel-scripting-langua...

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