An open source project led me to read Go on Wikipedia, which mentioned there already is one under the same name except, it has an additional “!,” that is “Go!”

The creator of the language asked Google to change their programming language’s name, because he feared the “‘big guy’ will end up steam-rollering over” and I think he was right, because nobody had heard of it and even its Wikipedia page was created after Google’s Go page.

The issue was marked as “Unfortunate” and with a comment: “there are many computing products and services named Go. In the 11 months since our release, there has been minimal confusion of the two languages.” I have never heard of any named Go until Google’s Go.

Of course it’s minimal, because no one else would ever know about “Go!.” When you search “Go! programming language” in Google Search, you get no “Go!” in first three pages and probably never would see any.

“Don’t be evil” and “Do the right thing” are just slogan and motto sound nice, don’t believe anything corporations say and do which you read on media, it’s all the publicity, nothing more and nothing less. They are created for one thing: profit.