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Re:Reasons for using Golang by flavoie on Sunday June 12, 2011 @11:21AM (#2646608)
Seriously? Every time I heard someone mention Go, they linked it to google to make it sounds as big as possible.
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Re:Reasons for using Golang by dagw on Sunday June 12, 2011 @11:51AM (#2646667)
Seriously! When I first started hearing about Go, it was always in the context of Ken Thompson's new language (that he wrote while working at Google).
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Re:Reasons for using Golang by burgerbrain on Sunday June 12, 2011 @12:23PM (#2646734)
Yes seriously. Ken Thompson's involvement in it is mentored, often exaggerated, in just about every introduction piece I see about it.

And to be brutally honest, its the only reason I initially even gave it a glance.

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