"search engine": See "race to the bottom". Remember that you are not the customer, you are the product. What I wouldn't give for a DWIS search engine that supported regexen!
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu] Sent: Saturday, May 9, 2020 3:51 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Developers say Google's Go is 'most sought after' programming language of 2020 On Sat, 9 May 2020 11:44:42 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: >+1 on the name. > >I read an article on branding once that said if consumers can mess up your >name, they will, so be aware of that when you pick a name. The East Bay >Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) is universally known in the SF Bay Area as >"East Bay Mud." > >Goo, with its nod to "++", Google and "object oriented" would have been a >great name, had they had a sense of humor. > >G would be good, with its homage to C and its predecessor B. > But they're terrible search keys unless your command syntax supports a mixture of whole-word and substring keys. I know of none that do. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
