Admittedly I'm a new programmer, but learning Go has taught me far more than just Go. For me, Go seemed very low level -- I mean, it even had pointers! But the

Admittedly I'm a new programmer, but learning Go has taught me far more than just Go. For me, Go seemed very low level -- I mean, it even had pointers! But then I tried to rewrite some GNU utilities in Go (still not sure _why_) and I had to translate C to Go, which flipped my world upside down. Simply because Go was easy enough for me to write as a beginner but close enough to the hardware for me to want to explore, I've learned a lot about the Linux kernel, C, GNU, programming best practices, and so on. And the best part is everybody is do damn friendly. If I'd ask a dumb question about Go I'd get a friendly response, along with RTFM. With C? Usually just RTFM. Robert, Rob, and Ken did a fine job. (Along with Brad, Russ, et al.)