Why it is called "Gosu"?

[Maik Jablonski]

Hi,

yesterday I've seen the announcement about Gosu and I must that I
really like it right away from the start. "Gosu" feels just right...
good work!

One simple question: why it is called "Gosu"?

To be honest: this name reminds me a little bit on a mix of
"Goto/Gosub" from the glory days were I coded funny games in Basic on
the VIC-20. These days were great, but the code was horrible...;-)

Cheers, Maik

[Carson Gross]

It was a random name, chosen by the dev lead, Scott McKinney.  The language was originally called GScript, but we wanted something less likely to be confused as a google technology, and less likely to be interpreted as a scripting only language.  All our source files still had .gs* extensions, and we didn't want to rename them all, so we needed something with a 'G' and an 's' in it.  

Nothing profound.  :)

Cheers,

Carson

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