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Re:Go and Swift take another step up the programming languag... by enneff on Thursday December 04, 2014 @06:29PM (#8702343)
> It was not originally intended to be a widely-used general-purpose language

Yes, it was. That was always the intention.

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Re:Go and Swift take another step up the programming languag... by robert_tweed on Thursday December 04, 2014 @06:42PM (#8702392)
I stand corrected :)

I'm sure I was paraphrasing Rob Pike from one of his talks describing the origins within Google.

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