• starman@programming.devOP
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    7 months ago

    “Because we are Microsoft, the company known for giving its products perfectly reasonable and not confusing names”

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      7 months ago

      I think Google’s the worst for this. Examples such as the browser Chrome, when browser chrome has been a thing for a long time. Go, a very common verb and keyword and also now a programming language. Not to be confused with their Go Links, which was a URL shortener. And then there’s all the ones they either rebrand or retire and/or replace.

      Perhaps they want confusing names because they think other search engines can’t handle the ambiguity.

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        7 months ago

        To be honest, other programming languages aren’t named any better

        Pascal is just a common name, Rust is a common noun, Java is an island which you cannot find by searching for just its name, Python’s a snake, C# is a musical note and C is just a letter.