Where did the early commits come from? What revision control systems existed back in 1972?
Those are obviously fake commits! Those were added by the Go language team as a joke. We must applaud their sense of humour :)
Google Go started in 1972
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Re: Google Go started in 1972
#22The whole point of those early commits is that it's a joke! Just go read them. They are basically laying out the simple Hello, World! program and showing its evolution over time. 1972: Hello, World! is written in B 1974: Hello, World! is re-written for the new C language 1988: Hello, World! is written in ANSI C (two commits, go read them to see the diff) 2008: Go
Unless the dispute resolution is on good tracks to be solved, I don't find it funny because Google has the weight to squash anyone on its way, even unintentionally.
Go was a good name for a language invented at google but it is unfortunately not available. The name 'lango' suggested in a comment was, in my opinion, a brilliant alternative name proposal. And the most funny alternative name proposal was 'go2'.
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#23Lets hope this shuts up all the annoying people that got nothing better to do than to whine about a similar name having been used by another language, now it is clear who was first ;)
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#24Re: Google Go started in 1972
#25Lets hope this shuts up all the annoying people that got nothing better to do than to whine about a similar name having been used by another language, now it is clear who was first ;)
Conspiracy Theory: You have to wonder if maybe they just added those entries so they could claim the name. ;)
Edit: Okay I know it is joke, it just highlights how people trust info on the internet and dates can be made to lie very easily.
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#26Google Go started in 1972 in the same sense as Clojure started in 1960.
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#27Lets hope this shuts up all the annoying people that got nothing better to do than to whine about a similar name having been used by another language, now it is clear who was first ;)
Yeah, and Mozilla should re-rename Firefox to Firebird.
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#28The whole point of those early commits is that it's a joke! Just go read them. They are basically laying out the simple Hello, World! program and showing its evolution over time. 1972: Hello, World! is written in B 1974: Hello, World! is re-written for the new C language 1988: Hello, World! is written in ANSI C (two commits, go read them to see the diff) 2008: Go
Unless the dispute resolution is on good tracks to be solved, I don't find it funny because Google has the weight to squash anyone on its way, even unintentionally. Go was a good name for a language invented at google but it is unfortunately not available. The name 'lango' suggested in a comment was, in my opinion, a brilliant alternative name proposal. And the most funny alternative name proposal was 'go2'.
I don't think this relates to the "Go" vs "Go!" situation, I think it's just meant to represent the evolution of Google Go as a language.
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#29Looks like Go is forked from B?.
More of a successor than a fork, since Ken Thompson is the creator of B and is also on the Go team. :)
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unless the dispute resolution is on good tracks to be solved, I don't find it funny because Google has the weight to squash anyone on its way, even unintentionally. Go was a good name for a language invented at google but it is unfortunately not available. The name 'lango' suggested in a comment was, in my opinion, a brilliant alternative name proposal. And the most funny alternative name proposal was 'go2'.
I don't think this relates to the "Go" vs "Go!" situation, I think it's just meant to represent the evolution of Google Go as a language.
That's interesting, I thought it was a direct (joke) response to the "Go" vs "Go!" situation. The "Go!" author stated that his language came first and then we find these conveniently aged commits the following day.
Either way, it's nice to see Google not taking itself too seriously.