Go: The Language with the Best Mascot

I want to learn Go just because I like the mascot. How could anyone not respect this little guy? 😛

Go originated as an experiment by Google engineers Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson to design a new programming language that would resolve common criticisms of other languages while maintaining their positive characteristics. The developers envisaged the new language as:

statically typed, scalable to large systems (as Java and C++)
productive and readable, without too many mandatory keywords and repetition^[21] (“light on the page” like dynamic languages)
not requiring integrated development environments, but supporting them well
supporting networking and multiprocessing

Wood: Another Passion

Here’s another passion of mine. I love building. This was a wrap around deck and verandah I enjoyed making for a friend in Western Australia. It took me the good part of a summer but it was a summer well spent with my wife (pre-kids). It’s hard to see the detail in this photo but I made the ends of the beams similar to those in a Chinese pagoda.