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Discussion on: How programming languages got their names

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marcellothearcane

For ultimate ungoogleability, start the name with a minus symbol

-language

On its own, you get no results, because it's a shortcut for excluding keywords from Google

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James Skinner

Don't forget C, C++, C#, Go and .NET, all of which come close for unsearchability. I'm 99% sure search engines special case a ton of search terms like these - I had to add special cases just implementing a simple search on company names some years back.

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Bob Bass

I use .NET and I've become quite fond of speech to text lately. I am a C# developer. It is a nightmare.

Not to mention that whenever I say C#, it shows up as c sharp.

So yes, I spoke this response but I had to manually input a few key words.

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James Skinner

Annoying! I guess text-to-speech software should also allow you to add special cases so that it knows if you say "see sharp" it should insert "C#" and similarly insert ".NET" for "dot net".

You could always use something like AutoIT and write a task that would monitor keypresses in application text boxes and replace them based on your preferred rules.

autoitscript.com/forum/topic/63979...