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Re:Impressions of Go by mseepgood on Tuesday July 23, 2013 @12:29PM (#6091067)
The first Go program was a LISP S-expression parser: http://blog.golang.org/first-go-program

Stephen Wolfram writes about the birth of Mathematica: "Macsyma was written in LISP, and lots of people said LISP was the only possibility. But a young physics graduate student named Rob Pike convinced me that C was the “language of the future”, and the right choice." http://blog.wolfram.com/2013/06/06/there-was-a-time-before-m...

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Re:Impressions of Go by pjmlp on Tuesday July 23, 2013 @03:20PM (#6092295)
Yeah, now we have to live the "present of buffer overflows".
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