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▲ benj111 an hour ago

>Eiichi Goto

Is it nominative determinism if it's 2 years before the introduction of Goto (1956, Fortran apparently)

Or maybe it was named in his honour?

▲binaryturtle an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Goto (as in "Go to") and Goto (as in the romaji version of one of 後藤, 五藤, 五島, …) is simple two things that sound/look the same when written in ASCII w/o spaces. :)

▲cwmoore an hour ago | parent [-]

Please see: “nominative determinism”

▲ranger_danger an hour ago | parent [-]

The last name "Goto" in this case is actually read Gotou (ごとう), but romanization methods are their own flamewar. There's much less emphasis put on the "go" part than the "tou", so pronunciation doesn't actually sound anything like the English word "goto" at all.

Imagine the spanish word gato. Now elongate the "to", and change the ga to go, and you're close.

▲HPsquared 36 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There's also GotoBLAS, developed by Kazushige Goto. I wonder if they have any relation or if it's a relatively common name.

▲techaqua 25 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

pronounced `go toe`