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> I got the sense that the Go people wanted to be taken seriously on the same level as great achievements like C and UNIX, but the creators quickly saw through the incoming critiques that they hadn't pulled this off.

One of the creators of Go is Ken Thompson.

"I did the first of two or three versions of UNIX all alone. And Dennis became an evangelist. Then there was a rewrite in a higher-level language that would come to be called C. He worked mostly on the language and on the I/O system, and I worked on all the rest of the operating system."




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