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Re:Idiomatic Go (2016) by mkl95 on Sunday March 09, 2025 @06:43PM (#43314703)
> (P.S. I never understood why Go uses words like "receiver" and "marshaling" that are rarely used elsewhere)

Not sure about receiver, but marshaling has been part of Python's lingo for ages.

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Re:Idiomatic Go (2016) by layer8 on Sunday March 09, 2025 @06:57PM (#43314822)
“Marshaling” became pretty ubiquitous as a term in the 1990s with CORBA and Microsoft OLE/COM.
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Re:Idiomatic Go (2016) by cratermoon on Sunday March 09, 2025 @06:49PM (#43314735)
The term 'receiver' has a long and distinguished history. Alan Kay used it, Smalltalk used the word almost exclusively. If Zoomers don't know their computer science history that's on them.
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Re:Idiomatic Go (2016) by zaphirplane on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @06:43AM (#43331114)
> Alan Kay used it, Smalltalk used

So Alan and the language he helped create. That’s double counting the sample of 1

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