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* [Bug web/47306] New: Wrong name of a programming language used
@ 2011-01-15 15:51 tg at mirbsd dot org
  2011-01-17 14:46 ` [Bug web/47306] " rguenth at gcc dot gnu.org
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From: tg at mirbsd dot org @ 2011-01-15 15:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=47306

           Summary: Wrong name of a programming language used
           Product: gcc
           Version: unknown
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: web
        AssignedTo: unassigned@gcc.gnu.org
        ReportedBy: tg@mirbsd.org


Hi,

both http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.6/changes.html and
today’s http://gcc.gnu.org/index.html#news pretend
GCC has gained support for the Go programming lan-
guage, whereas it has only gained support for the
Google-Go programming language instead, according
to what I read.

Please see (I hate to point to Wikipedia, but that’s
illustrating the problem) the information at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go!_(programming_language)
and correct the attribution. The Go language not in
GCC has been around far longer and as such earlier
naming rights, and it’s wrong for the FSF / GCC-SC
to follow a vendor’s attempt of this hostile takeover.

Thanks in advance!


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* [Bug web/47306] Wrong name of a programming language used
  2011-01-15 15:51 [Bug web/47306] New: Wrong name of a programming language used tg at mirbsd dot org
@ 2011-01-17 14:46 ` rguenth at gcc dot gnu.org
  2011-01-21 22:31 ` ian at airs dot com
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From: rguenth at gcc dot gnu.org @ 2011-01-17 14:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=47306

Richard Guenther <rguenth at gcc dot gnu.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |NEW
   Last reconfirmed|                            |2011.01.17 14:14:48
                 CC|                            |iant at google dot com
     Ever Confirmed|0                           |1

--- Comment #1 from Richard Guenther <rguenth at gcc dot gnu.org> 2011-01-17 14:14:48 UTC ---
Confirmed.


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* [Bug web/47306] Wrong name of a programming language used
  2011-01-15 15:51 [Bug web/47306] New: Wrong name of a programming language used tg at mirbsd dot org
  2011-01-17 14:46 ` [Bug web/47306] " rguenth at gcc dot gnu.org
@ 2011-01-21 22:31 ` ian at airs dot com
  2011-01-21 22:58 ` tg at mirbsd dot org
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From: ian at airs dot com @ 2011-01-21 22:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=47306

Ian Lance Taylor <ian at airs dot com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
                 CC|                            |ian at airs dot com
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX

--- Comment #2 from Ian Lance Taylor <ian at airs dot com> 2011-01-21 21:44:25 UTC ---
The naming similarity is unfortunate. However, there are many computing
products and services named Go. In the 13 months since the release of Google's
Go langage, there has been minimal confusion of the two languages.


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* [Bug web/47306] Wrong name of a programming language used
  2011-01-15 15:51 [Bug web/47306] New: Wrong name of a programming language used tg at mirbsd dot org
  2011-01-17 14:46 ` [Bug web/47306] " rguenth at gcc dot gnu.org
  2011-01-21 22:31 ` ian at airs dot com
@ 2011-01-21 22:58 ` tg at mirbsd dot org
  2011-01-22  0:07 ` pinskia at gcc dot gnu.org
  2011-01-22  0:32 ` pinskia at gcc dot gnu.org
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From: tg at mirbsd dot org @ 2011-01-21 22:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=47306

Thorsten Glaser <tg at mirbsd dot org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|RESOLVED                    |REOPENED
         Resolution|WONTFIX                     |

--- Comment #3 from Thorsten Glaser <tg at mirbsd dot org> 2011-01-21 22:40:40 UTC ---
This doesn’t change the fact that it’s not _right_ for Google to do that.
I’ve read the term “steamrolling” in Issue 9 later and find it fitting.

I also think that someone working for Google should not be able to close
this bug as WONTFIX due to a conflict of interests.

Call it Google-Go or World of… well, taken. Or Issue 9. The compiler
frontend probably can stay named gccgo.


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  2011-01-21 22:58 ` tg at mirbsd dot org
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  2011-01-22  0:32 ` pinskia at gcc dot gnu.org
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Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gcc dot gnu.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
             Status|REOPENED                    |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX

--- Comment #4 from Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gcc dot gnu.org> 2011-01-21 22:55:24 UTC ---
I think it is ok for Google to call their language what ever they feel fit.  If
go is a reference it is a reference to the game anyways.  Remember there is a
go game and guess what that was first.


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--- Comment #5 from Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gcc dot gnu.org> 2011-01-21 22:57:16 UTC ---
Oh and GNU go exists already :)  So using go as a programming language name it
is going to be pretty much easy to find different names for different
programming langauges.


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