I just came up the idea: why didn't they name the language "Goo", and leave "Gle" to the debugger? It would be more common for people to refer to the language itself than to its debugger.
[1] http://golang.org/doc/faq#What_is_the_origin_of_the_name
I just came up the idea: why didn't they name the language "Goo", and leave "Gle" to the debugger? It would be more common for people to refer to the language itself than to its debugger.
[1] http://golang.org/doc/faq#What_is_the_origin_of_the_name
Then again... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goo_%28programming_language%29 , although the homepage http://people.csail.mit.edu/jrb/goo/ suggests that that sort of thinking is not really in Goo's pedigree... even for 2003 that's not a pretty page.
Also, if you're suggesting "gle" as a debugger name, you're missing the joke. "ogle" is a verb meaning, approximately, "to look at", so it's a good name for a debugger. "gle" is not.
(Except that "ogle" is not actually a good name for a corporate-sponsored debugger, because "ogle" has sexual connotations. Which is why you should assume that this is a joke.)