> Go was created by the forefathers of C and Unix. They left out all of those features on purpose. The null pointer was created by Tony Hoare. He later thought

> Go was created by the forefathers of C and Unix. They left out all of those features on purpose. The null pointer was created by Tony Hoare. He later thought that that was a mistake. Yet here we are again, in the new millenium. Coming up with new languages with null/nil pointers in them.