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Re:Go's first commit by echelon on Saturday August 27, 2016 @01:29AM (#12371148)
How is this so old? Was Go something that was brewing for a long time prior to its development and debut at Google? Also, Kernighan? Maybe I live under a rock, but I wasn't aware of his involvement.
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Re:Go's first commit by mseepgood on Saturday August 27, 2016 @01:55AM (#12371207)
> How is this so old?

These commits are obviously jokes, probably by Ken Thompson or Rob Pike.

> Was Go something that was brewing for a long time prior to its development and debut at Google?

Its an evolutionary descendant of Bell Labs languages: B -> NewB -> C -> Newsqueak -> Alef -> Limbo -> Go. (The channel-based concurrency model was introduced in this line with Newsqueak)

> Also, Kernighan? Maybe I live under a rock, but I wasn't aware of his involvement.

He is peripherally involved as the co-author of 'The Go Programming Language' book: http://www.gopl.io

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Re:Go's first commit by reality_czech on Saturday August 27, 2016 @03:16AM (#12371379)
Go goes back even further than that. They started developing it on punched cards. Then the 1960s happened and... well you had to be there. Long story short, the project never got completed until 2012.
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Re:Go's first commit by f2f on Saturday August 27, 2016 @01:45AM (#12371190)
it's a joke.
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Re:Go's first commit by bryanlarsen on Saturday August 27, 2016 @02:48AM (#12371322)
No, it's the change history of C, of which Go is a descendant.
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Re:Go's first commit by takeda on Saturday August 27, 2016 @01:25PM (#12373254)
Go is resembling Algol more.
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