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hu3 on July 16, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ownership and Borrowing in D

Isn't Go inspired by Oberon? That would explain some things.

pjmlp on July 16, 2019 [–]

Yes, the method syntax comes from Oberon-2, unsafe package is similar to SYSTEM on Oberon.

The rest comes from Limbo (Inferno's userspace language).

Unfortunately it also left a couple of other nice things from those languages.

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