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There was a controversy when Go came out about the naming due to another language also being called Go, and the top voted alternative name was Plan9, and as an
by spiffistan 2y ago
There was a controversy when Go came out about the naming due to another language also being called Go, and the top voted alternative name was Plan9, and as an homage they may have used that internally instead.
- stonogo 2y agoThe top voted alternative was "Issue 9" which served as a reference to Plan 9 and happened to be the actual issue number in the Go project on Google Code opened by the guy who's programming language (named "Go!") was already out there.
- spiffistan 2y agoYou're right, my bad