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This seems to be a joke, but I was expecting it might be serious, because (AIUI) the Go compiler is derived from the Plan 9 C compiler. Of course, that was prob
by TazeTSchnitzel 5y ago
This seems to be a joke, but I was expecting it might be serious, because (AIUI) the Go compiler is derived from the Plan 9 C compiler. Of course, that was probably not started in 1972, but it does mean Go's source code is older than the language itself.
- hobomatic 5y agoOne of the more strikingly recognizable steps along the way is the alef programming language, also a plan9/bell labs baby.