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The subsummation of the word 'Gopher' into the Go language eco-sphere irritates me also. I believe it has something to do with the Language having adopted the Gopher (animal) as their mascot?

Just because something is no longer in common/widespread use, does not mean you can come along and use its meaning or name on your shiny new product.

Gopher the protocol maybe niche these days, but it's not dead. The continued use of the term 'Gopher-XYZ' by the Go language people will only accelerate the death of the Gopher protocol, which although inevitable it does not mean it should be erased from history by something else.



There a tons of name conflicts for things that are more popular than the gopher protocol. If the creators wanted to avoid this they need to pick a unique name.


My pet peeve is Atom the protocol and Atom the text editor. They're obscuring a format and a protocol that's much more important for the web than another text editor is, and they're doing the world a disfavor as a result.


Even worse is when Justin Timberlake did that song "Cry Me A River", when there was already an excellent song by the same name. It just obscures the existing song, and does the world a disservice.


Pretty rude way to disagree with someone. I'd appreciate any criticism, but not sure what I'm supposed to do with this comment, other than feeling bad.


I'm getting the impression that he wasn't actually telling you to "cry him a river".


perhaps, have a laugh?


And I've been using Atom as my default username on local Linux installs since 2001. So now I invoke my user installed editor as

   /home/atom/opt/Atom/bin/atom
And to check it's running? NP! Just use `ps -eF|grep -i atom`

We need more letters


> Just because something is no longer in common/widespread use, does not mean you can come along and use its meaning or name on your shiny new product.

I get that each time a "ML" link is posted here. Sadly it's almost never about the various successors of Miranda.


There were many similar complaints when the Go language itself was announced, there already being a programming language named "Go!"


And also a 2500+ year old Chinese board game, generally referred to in English by its Japanese name (Go). Although the ambiguity of the name is beginning to popularize its Korean name, baduk (as in /r/baduk)


>which although inevitable it does not mean it should be erased from history by something else

Why do you think it's inevitable, if not exactly because it is to be erased by something else?




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