Here’s my take on the Google Go programming language Issue 9 fiasco.
The Background
You know that awesome new programming language Google is coming out with called Go? It turns out that Francis McCabe has already created a programming language called Go! almost 5 years ago. In fact, he even wrote a book about it that was published in February of 2007 (in addition to several articles).
Enter Issue 9
So, like any responsible member of the programming community, Francis opened up an issue in the Go issue tracking…
