@raktheundead @alcinnz Go really is a descendant of Modula and Oberon, which are descended from Algol; and it has CSP-like features taken from SuperPascal and Joyce. Robert Griesemer, who now works on Go, worked on Oberon. The rest of the syntax is from the Unix and Plan-9 people.

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