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There is a continual stream of programming languages being invented. Some are highly specialized, others are quite generic, while a third group is designed to fill broad but to some extent niche areas. Go was created in 2007 and released publically in 2009. It was intended to be a systems programming language, augmenting (or replacing) C++ and other statically compiled languages for production network and multiprocessing systems.
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Newmarch, J. (2017). Overview of the Go Language. In: Network Programming with Go. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2692-6_2
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