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Yeah, they both share Rob Pike and the Bell Labs heritage. Weird side note: Renee French did both the Plan 9 and Go mascot designs as well. https://go.dev/blo
by salmo 5y ago
Yeah, they both share Rob Pike and the Bell Labs heritage.
Weird side note: Renee French did both the Plan 9 and Go mascot designs as well.
https://go.dev/blog/gopher https://go.dev/blog/gopher
And to the further above, there are other languages and compilers supported on Plan 9/Inferno. Like Go.
- bear8642 5y agoWell she is married to Rob Pike…
- kencausey 5y agoAnd Penn Jillette knew both of them and introduced them to each other. Source: Penn's radio show where Rob and Renee were each guests at different times.
- kragen 5y agoGolang and Limbo share a lot more than that!
- MikeTheGreat 5y agoI don't suppose there's a web page / article / etc that spells some of this out, is there? When I try searching for "golang" and "limbo X" (where X = history, or comparison, or..., or...) it looks like the popularity of golang swamps any pages that might compare Go and Limbo.
- akshayshah 5y agohttps://swtch.com/~rsc/thread/ https://swtch.com/~rsc/thread/ https://spf13.com/presentation/on-the-shoulders-of-giants/ https://spf13.com/presentation/on-the-shoulders-of-giants/ https://seh.dev/go-legacy/ https://seh.dev/go-legacy/
- MikeTheGreat 5y agoThanks!