
GopherCon 2014 Opening Keynote by Rob Pike
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Rob Pike opens GopherCon 2014 with a keynote on the design and evolution of Go. He covers where its ideas came from, including the origin of hello world.
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Recommended as a walkthrough of how Go's design evolved and where its ideas originated.
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Rob Pike's keynote at GopherCon 2014 does a great walkthrough of the evolution of the design of the language, where ideas were borrowed from and why: [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗In Rob Pike's opening keynote at GopherCon, Rob attributes the first hello world to Brian Kernighan written in B in 1972. Source: [VIDEO] (minute 2 to 3 it's discussed)
Read original comment ↗Past keynotes have been posted on youtube[1], so I suspect you will be able to watch it soon! [1] Rob Pike's opening keynote from last year is available here: [VIDEO]
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