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		dscrd on Oct 26, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: dl.google.com now served by Go By your argument, C++ is controlled by Bell Labs.

Evbn on Oct 26, 2012 [–]

Was. It didn't see wide adoption until we had many compilers. I will ignore the standard, since the compilers did.

Mr_T_ on Oct 26, 2012 | [–]

There are two compilers that implement the Go 1 spec independently: the original Go compiler and Gccgo, official part of the GCC.

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