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GopherCon 2014 Opening Keynote by Rob Pike

Confreaks · 37.9K views · 2014-05-08 · 56:36

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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.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2014–2015

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erikstmartin · 2014-11 · Recommendation

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]

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tuckermi · 2015-07 · Reference

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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iends · 2014-07 · Reference

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)

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