Foreword by David Cheney
As a fan of trivia, in the salad days of my education as a software engineer, one of my favorite books was Josh Bloch and Neal Gafter’s Java Puzzlers. I liked that the authors didn’t simply set out to stump readers with obscure language factoids. Instead, each question was treated as an opportunity to educate the reader on the history and deeper meaning of a less-traveled aspect of the language.
When I discovered, far too many years into my Go experience than I care to mention, that copy returned the number of elements copied, my first thought was “Wow, how had I missed that?” My second thought was “I wonder how many people I can trick with this.” Thus was born my #golang pop quiz series of tweets.
With tweet sizes being ...
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