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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.

Recommended as a walkthrough of how Go's design evolved and where its ideas originated.

C, C++, Rust, Go & systems languagesProgramming language design

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@iends2014 · in “Ask HN: When was the first usage of “Hello, world”?”

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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@erikstmartin2014 · in “Half a decade with Go”

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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@tuckermi2015 · in “Russ Cox Keynote – GopherCon 2015 liveblog”

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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