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<feed xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Simon Willison's Weblog: ken-thompson</title><link href="http://simonwillison.net/" rel="alternate"/><link href="http://simonwillison.net/tags/ken-thompson.atom" rel="self"/><id>http://simonwillison.net/</id><updated>2009-11-11T07:00:21+00:00</updated><author><name>Simon Willison</name></author><entry><title>The Go Programming Language</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2009/Nov/11/go/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2009-11-11T07:00:21+00:00</published><updated>2009-11-11T07:00:21+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2009/Nov/11/go/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://golang.org/"&gt;The Go Programming Language&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
A brand new systems programming language, designed by Robert Griesemer and Unix/Plan 9 veterans Rob Pike and Ken Thompson and funded by Google. Concurrency is supported by lightweight communicating processes called goroutines. “It feels like a dynamic language but has the speed and safety of a static language.”


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