To see the earlier work by Rob Pike on the ideas that would eventually turn into golang take a look at this paper: http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/who/rsc/thread/n

To see the earlier work by Rob Pike on the ideas that would eventually turn into golang take a look at this paper: http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/who/rsc/thread/newsquimpl.pdf http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/who/rsc/thread/newsquimpl.pdf A good overview (of CSP) document is written by Russ Cox: http://swtch.com/~rsc/thread/ http://swtch.com/~rsc/thread/ Both the above articles are more focused on implementation as opposed to theory.