Honestly, I'm not surprised. As Robert Griesemer, one of the core Go team members, confirmed the other week in his GopherCon talk "The Evolution of Go", Go inhe

Honestly, I'm not surprised. As Robert Griesemer, one of the core Go team members, confirmed the other week in his GopherCon talk "The Evolution of Go", Go inherited a lot of concepts from Oberon. Oberon is from the Wirth family of languages, which are generally regarded as good teaching languages. He aptly described Go as using C tokens, but having an Oberon structure.