Unsurprisingly given the common pedigree, a number of ideas from Plan 9 have made their way into Go. E.g., compare http://golang.org/pkg/net/#Dial http://golan

Unsurprisingly given the common pedigree, a number of ideas from Plan 9 have made their way into Go. E.g., compare http://golang.org/pkg/net/#Dial http://golang.org/pkg/net/#Dial and http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/2/dial http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/2/dial. Go's approach to concurrency is familiar in the Plan 9 world from Alef (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alef_(programming_language) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alef_(programming_language), http://swtch.com/~rsc/thread/alef.pdf http://swtch.com/~rsc/thread/alef.pdf) and Limbo (http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/papers/limbo.html http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/papers/limbo.html), the language used to implement Inferno, a Plan 9 spinoff.