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Recommended as a walkthrough of how Go's design evolved and where its ideas originated.
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.
“does a great walkthrough of the evolution of the design of the language” (HN, 2014)
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: [this video]
Evolution of Go's design and where ideas came from
In Rob Pike's opening keynote at GopherCon, Rob attributes the first hello world to Brian Kernighan written in B in 1972. Source: [this video] (minute 2 to 3 it's discussed)
Attributes first hello world to Kernighan in B, 1972
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: [this video]
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