It's also a board game.
But Google already knows that. The game has been played for more than 4000 years.
But Google already knows that. The game has been played for more than 4000 years.
Which proves Francis McCabe's point. Before naming something, it's a good idea to see if someone's already given something in the same category (a board game, a programming language) the name you thought of. And nowadays, we have search engines such as Google that can be used for this ... which Google could have used.
It's now also a good idea to make sure your name is easily searchable. Go is a common stop word ... so maybe that's why Go! failed to show up when searched for?
The decent thing for Google to do is to return McCabe's language in search results if the user types in Go! with the exclamation mark. It has no trouble returning the programming languages when C, lisp, or basic are entered. Better still would be to rename their language to Golang, its alternative name.
Amusingly, much like Go the programming language, Go the game is kind of hard to search for. I usually have much more success if I use the Chinese (weiqi) or Korean (baduk) names.