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		krisives on Feb 10, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Impala: Scalable Distributed Deep Reinforcement Le... I believe it started with Golang, where Go was already an existing language by a hobbyist - granted nobody was using it kinda lame to steal his name.

nl on Feb 10, 2018 | [–]

While I agree with the other two, I remember when Golang came out and no one except the author of the other Go language had ever heard of it.

visarga on Feb 10, 2018 | [–]

Go was taken by ancient China before that.

nielsbot on Feb 10, 2018 | [–]

maybe the game itself but the name is derived from Japanese, fairly recently

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