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Is Plan9 in this context related at all to Bell Labs's Plan9? Seems too similar to be coincidence.
by tempfile 2y ago
Is Plan9 in this context related at all to Bell Labs's Plan9? Seems too similar to be coincidence.
- kibwen 2y agoGo itself is from the same people who worked on Plan9 (which is why I find the choice of name in the OP particularly confusing).
- wrs 2y agoYes, some of the same people created Go.
- saclark11 2y agoYes. Two of Go's creators, Rob Pike and Ken Thompson, were also authors of Plan 9 at Bell Labs.
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- pjmlp 2y agoGo is the evolution of Limbo from Inferno, which was designed based on the failure of Alef on Plan 9, combined with a minor set of Oberon-2 influences.
- 201984 2y agoFrom https://go.dev/doc/asm https://go.dev/doc/asm: > The assembler is based on the input style of the Plan 9 assemblers, which is documented in detail elsewhere. If you plan to write assembly language, you should read that document although much of it is Plan 9-specific. That first sentence links to https://9p.io/sys/doc/asm.html https://9p.io/sys/doc/asm.html. So yes, definitely not a coincidence.