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Re:Green vs. Brown Programming Languages by srparish on Thursday April 22, 2021 @03:54PM (#26907398)
They had the limbo language in plan9, which has similar features and quirks. It seems most probable that the outcome of the 45 minute conversation wasn't "let's build a language from scratch", but rather "let's iterate on limbo".
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Re:Green vs. Brown Programming Languages by pjmlp on Friday April 23, 2021 @02:32AM (#26911586)
You can get the details here,

"Creating the Go programming language featuring Rob Pike & Robert Griesemer"

https://changelog.com/gotime/100

There are other sources as well, this was just the one that quickest came to mind.

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