I've always suspected that 'Reader' and 'Writer' were names borrowed from Oberon since that's one of the influences that contributed to early Go design: https:

I've always suspected that 'Reader' and 'Writer' were names borrowed from Oberon since that's one of the influences that contributed to early Go design: https://github.com/Project-Oberon/Source-Code/blob/cf7f6a6cda1c5e58299726ec578ffde76ce8a6bf/CERES%20Oberon%20V2/ASCII/Texts.Mod.txt#L74 https://github.com/Project-Oberon/Source-Code/blob/cf7f6a6cd... Please enjoy this microdose of historical trivia even though it doesn't answer the question of why those names were chosen (when designing Oberon).