First git commit for Go was in 1972? 🤯

[Amarjeet Anand]

How come the first git commit for Go was in 1972?

Anybody want to share the story behind the first 4 commits of Go project by  Brian Kernighan?

 https://github.com/golang/go/commits/master?after=188b2ac839f828254678d0f05a3ea953dc5d0621+4764&branch=master

[Mohamed Yousif]

I did small google search and here are the findings

>Brian Kernighan actually wrote the first "hello, world" program as part of the documentation for the BCPL programming language. BCPL was used while C was being developed at Bell Labs a few years before the publication of Kernighan and Ritchie's C book in 1972.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/12785204

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[Alexander Mills]

git didnt exist until 2009 or something lol

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[David Riley]

I had not noticed these, but they are brilliant. Note the history in the commit logs as well (which look like somewhat like SCCS delta messages to me).

A small glossary, and you can piece the rest together yourself:

ken = Ken Thompson, co-originator of Unix and Go
dmr = Dennis Ritchie (RIP), co-originator of Unix and C

Go has a distinct lineage from the Bell Labs folks that gave us C and Unix and Plan9, so these are a lovely homage to Go's ancestors.


- Dave

[Henry]

It is that darn time machine I am telling you. They have had it for years but they just keep it hidden from the rest of us.