These commits are obviously jokes, probably by Ken Thompson or Rob Pike.
> Was Go something that was brewing for a long time prior to its development and debut at Google?
Its an evolutionary descendant of Bell Labs languages: B -> NewB -> C -> Newsqueak -> Alef -> Limbo -> Go. (The channel-based concurrency model was introduced in this line with Newsqueak)
> Also, Kernighan? Maybe I live under a rock, but I wasn't aware of his involvement.
He is peripherally involved as the co-author of 'The Go Programming Language' book: http://www.gopl.io
These commits are obviously jokes, probably by Ken Thompson or Rob Pike.
> Was Go something that was brewing for a long time prior to its development and debut at Google?
Its an evolutionary descendant of Bell Labs languages: B -> NewB -> C -> Newsqueak -> Alef -> Limbo -> Go. (The channel-based concurrency model was introduced in this line with Newsqueak)
> Also, Kernighan? Maybe I live under a rock, but I wasn't aware of his involvement.
He is peripherally involved as the co-author of 'The Go Programming Language' book: http://www.gopl.io