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Shiju Varghese, Go Recipes, 10.1007/978-1-4842-1188-5_1

1. Beginning Go

Shiju Varghese

(1)Chettiyadan House, Cheranalloor, India

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Go, also commonly referred to as Golang, is a general-purpose programming language, developed by a team at Google and many contributors from the open source community ( http://golang.org/contributors ). The Go language was conceived in September 2007 by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson at Google. Go first appeared in November 2009, and the first version of the language was released in December 2012. Go is an open ...

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