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One of Go's designer, Rob Griesemer, was a Phd student Niklaus Wirth. Hmm...

• pjmlp 3y ago
  Go's method syntax is taken from Oberon-2, just like unsafe package is pretty much the same purpose as SYSTEM.
  • AnimalMuppet 3y ago
    And, if I understand correctly, Go stole its object file format (or at least large-scale design) from Modula-2.
    • pjmlp 3y ago
      That I doubt it, given Modula-2 package design, how symbols are made public and type system differences. If you mean packages as modules, other languages predate Modula-2 in that matter.
      • AnimalMuppet 3y ago
        No, I mean the object file defines the public symbols at the start of the file. Go very deliberately stole that feature. Rob Pike said that using that idea let Go do something faster when compiling, though I don't remember the details.