Re: [go-nuts] go package dating back to 2009

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Ian Lance Taylor

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Jul 24, 2023, 11:21:22 PM7/24/23
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On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 3:08 PM Bravo Moua <b.mou...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> How can one search for packages dating back to Jan 2009

Well, Go was only publicly released in November, 2009, so there are no
public Go packages as old as January, 2009.

I assume you know that you can search for Go packages today at
https://pkg.go.dev/.

Perhaps if you clarify what you are looking for we can provide a more
useful answer.

Ian

TheDiveO

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Jul 25, 2023, 5:19:17 AM7/25/23
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just a wild guess: search for prior art?
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Ian Lance Taylor

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Jul 25, 2023, 10:45:00 PM7/25/23
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On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 3:29 PM Bravo Moua <b.mou...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> How bout prior to the public release in nov 2009? Well here's the story, Im looking for the creator of Bitcoin, I was a part of the creation of Bitcoin from the beginning. We ve coded some codes in Golang in Jan 2009. Just asking around if there is any history that is prior to the release of golang in Nov 2009 that can be found by who created the packages then. For a fact, bytes, fmt, and packages in those category are from Satoshi Nakamoto and myself. Just looking for a old friend.

It seems quite unlikely that there was any Bitcoin code written in Go
in January, 2009. I was working on Go at that time, and I never heard
a hint of anything like that. At that time all Go code was written by
people at Google, and there was very very little of it. You can see
approximately all of it in the git repository at go.googlesource.com
(the Go team was not using git at the time, but the revision history
was copied into git later). It is not completely impossible that
somebody at Google wrote some Bitcoin code in Go before November,
2009, and that I never heard about it, but I'm pretty skeptical.

Ian
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Jan Mercl

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Jul 26, 2023, 5:07:25 AM7/26/23
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On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 12:32 AM Bravo Moua <b.mou...@gmail.com> wrote:

> For a fact, bytes, fmt, and packages in those category are from Satoshi Nakamoto and myself.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Rob Pike

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Jul 26, 2023, 6:49:32 AM7/26/23
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I am delighted to learn that I, the original author of Go's fmt and bytes packages, am actually Satoshi Nakamoto. I always wondered who he was. Thanks for clearing that up.

All kidding aside, I do not understand what you are trying to achieve by claiming authorship of this code. Or even if that's what you are doing. As Ian said, there was no public Go code in early 2009, and the private, internal code that became the public release was all written by a handful of Google engineers, your name (or Satoshi's) not among them.

-rob


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Jim Idle

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Jul 26, 2023, 7:14:42 AM7/26/23
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Decred is a project that was originally put together by someone who never claimed the moniker used by the originator.  I suggest that 'Bravo Moua' is trying to claim authorship.  HOwever, it is clear that I am Spartacus. 

https://thedecreddigest.wordpress.com/2017/06/10/decred-where-did-it-all-begin/

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