It seems like Google put itself in a bind for announcing its new programming language which it named "Go". It turned out that someone has already use the same two characters as a name of a programming language since 2000. Has Google not been using it's own search engine? Or was it's search engine not good enough to tell them that a software architect named Frank McCabe has a Go! programming language described in book that he published in 2007 and in a research paper published in 2004? Or worst, is Google already leaving its original motto of "Do not be evil"?

I think we need to feel the sensitivity of Google on this issue. Are they too big now that they can't even control themselves? Watch out McCabe.

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