erikstmartinNov 2014Recommends
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
in “Half a decade with Go” · View on HN
GopherCon 2014 Opening Keynote by Rob Pike
GopherCon 2014 Opening Keynote by Rob Pike on HackerTube: recommended by 1 Hacker News commenter across 1 month, 2014–2015.
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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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“does a great walkthrough of the evolution of the design of the language”
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tuckermiJul 2015Cites it
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
in “Russ Cox Keynote – GopherCon 2015 liveblog” · View on HN
iendsJul 2014Cites it
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)
in “Ask HN: When was the first usage of “Hello, world”?” · View on HN
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C, C++, Rust, Go & systems languagesProgramming language designgorob pikelanguage designgopherconkeynote