ultra beginner

[embryonic programmer]

I noticed this "GO" came out because of a link on digg.com. I saw 20
minutes of the google techtalk and understood only one thing very
clearly: Go is much more efficient then C++, "fun" and costs less
time. So, I thought it might be a nice time to start programming for
ones.

as a complete beginner (embryo) in this field I was wondering where I
could find a tutorial to start learning the simplest of tags to use
GO?

[Alan]

I'm in the same boat as you embryonic, I'm looking to get back into
programming and Go looks like an appealing language with which to do
so. The problem is that Go was quite literally just released to the
public a few days ago, so right now everyone (veteran progammers
included) are trying to figure it all out. I'd love to see some
tutorials pop up, maybe even a community site for new Go programmers
too. Anyone on here know of any efforts to spearhead that?

-Alan

[Christoffer Hallas Pedersen]

Well obviously, there is the http://golang.org/doc/go_tutorial.html and
http://golang.org/pkg/ which is basically the syntax tutorial and the
documentation. Have you guys managed to compile the compiler on your
respestive systems? Please follow the instructions here
http://golang.org/doc/install.html and give it a go. You'll need some
sort of Unix/BSD based system though.

I will be available on the news group this evening and try to guide you
guys through.

Regards

Christoffer Hallas

[embryonic programmer]

Dear mr. Hallas,

tnx for the info about syntax, I'll be looking into that...I have yet
to install the go program. however, if I understand you correctly I
cannot run GO in a windows environment?

greets from holland:)

[Ian Lance Taylor]

embryonic programmer <c.r....@gmail.com> writes:

> tnx for the info about syntax, I'll be looking into that...I have yet
> to install the go program. however, if I understand you correctly I
> cannot run GO in a windows environment?

That is correct: Go does not yet support Windows. Sorry.

Ian

[ck]

On Nov 12, 8:39 am, Christoffer Hallas Pedersen

<christofferh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You'll need some sort of Unix/BSDbased system though.

This needs clarification. My understanding is that you can use Linux
or Mac OS X. But since there is no runtime for them yet, you can't
use FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD or other flavors of Unix. Only Linux or
Mac OS X. Correct?

[Russ Cox]

Yes.