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Why oh why are people still putting special characters in the names of programming language?

# . + are bad enough... but * ?!? It can't even be used in filenames at all.

And while Google might be ok at indexing it... pretty much every other fulltext search engine will be useless. Not to mention it can't be used in package names, domain names, filenames, and a heap of other things.

Even an emoji (while still terrible) would be better under some circumstances.

"Go" was ridiculous enough, ironically from somebody who works at Google. But these people still putting special characters in the names must really not care about findability/disambiguation at all.

PHP might have got a lot wrong... but the name is great... it's just "PHP" everywhere, even the filename extension.

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