

Ask HN: Has Apple announced a language whose name clashes with an existing one? - ColinWright


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Yes,

but so did Google years ago. The author even filed a bug report.

[https://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=9](https://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=9)

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loumf
There are many languages with the same name as another lesser known one. Go
was taken before google used it -- there was already a Pearl before Perl.

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TheCoelacanth
Yes. Do they care? No.

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julianpye
Actually the Swift website is down, too, overwhelmed by everyone searching for
the Apple flavour.

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iancarroll
yes

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nighthawk24
unbelievable

