I was just being silly Skip :)
Lang is itself (as opposed to Erlang) quite a popular surname in itself:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lang_(surname)
Though it would be good to lighten the mood a little by making a jest :)(if we
can't laugh at ourselves, we'll never improve :)
In fact, i had a frien
Erlang is assumed to be a node to the Danish mathematician Erlang, an
important figure in telephony queuing theory.
On Sun, Jul 30, 2017, 9:10 PM simran wrote:
> Er?
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> sorry, couldn't help myself :)
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> Go Go!
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> On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 12:24 PM, Dave Cheney d...@cheney.net wrote:
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>> Golan
Er?
sorry, couldn't help myself :)
Go Go!
On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 12:24 PM, Dave Cheney d...@cheney.net wrote:
Golang helps much, when searching for Go related programming issues all over the
internet
Skip's point, which I heartily support, is here, on this forum, there is little
ambigui
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> Golang helps much, when searching for Go related programming issues all
> over the internet
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Skip's point, which I heartily support, is here, on this forum, there is
little ambiguity what people refer to when they talk about the programming
language called Go.
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On Tuesday, July 25, 2017 at 12:16:43 PM UTC-6, Skip wrote:
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> Although "go" is a verb, an adjective and a noun (including the game),
> there shouldn't be any confusion in what Go is, when posting to a list
> dedicated to the language.
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> Thanks,
> -Skip
>
You are not familiar with the probl
I was specifically referring to things posted to this list to avoid the old
chestnut about search.
For what it's worth, I don't buy that argument either. Searching for "game
of life in go language" works just as well. Correctness matters even when
nobody is looking.
On Tue, Jul 25, 2017, 2:47 PM
On Jul 25, 2017 5:48 PM, wrote:
Yes, the language name is Go, but sometimes real life matters.
Imagine I want to search for a Go implementation of Conway's Game of Life,
but I don't quite remember the game name, so I search for:
go game life
Nothing. Otherwise, if I search for
golang game lif
Google Search is weird. I searched for "game of life in go" and all ten
links were great hits for just that. When I search for "go game life", the
implementation of Conway's game is the fifth link; still not so bad.
Thomas
On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 2:47 PM wrote:
> Yes, the language name is Go, b
Yes, the language name is Go, but sometimes real life matters.
Imagine I want to search for a Go implementation of Conway's Game of Life,
but I don't quite remember the game name, so I search for:
go game life
Nothing. Otherwise, if I search for
golang game life
I get plenty of entries direct
