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jbarham on Feb 1, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Plan 9: The way the future was

Unsurprisingly given the common pedigree, a number of ideas from Plan 9 have made their way into Go. E.g., compare http://golang.org/pkg/net/#Dial and http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/2/dial.

Go's approach to concurrency is familiar in the Plan 9 world from Alef (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alef_(programming_language), http://swtch.com/~rsc/thread/alef.pdf) and Limbo (http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/papers/limbo.html), the language used to implement Inferno, a Plan 9 spinoff.

dhconnelly on Feb 1, 2012 [–]

Cool. I wasn't sure if it was common knowledge that Ken Thompson and Rob Pike created Go. The Go compiler toolchain is from Plan 9, too: http://golang.org/cmd/.

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