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The first Go program (2013)

by Gurrewe on 3/3/17, 7:18 AM with 13 comments

  • by jhbadger on 3/5/17, 2:02 AM

    I find it amusing that this first program in Go is for parsing an Lisp-style S-Expression, given that this has nothing to do with Go's syntax.
  • by maddyboo on 3/5/17, 4:12 AM

    This seems relatively complex for being the first Go program. I suppose they wanted to test something non-trivial which took advantage of most of the implemented language features. I guess I was expecting something closer to a hello world program.