[carbonica]

Russ is pretty much describing Go as it existed in its developer's minds in 2007. He even explains nearly all of Go's (future) interesting features - with nearly identical syntax - before he even gets to an example.

[voyou]

Well, actually he's describing Alef as it existed in the Plan 9 system in the early 90s. The creators of Go were also involved in creating Plan 9, so presumably they drew on their earlier experience of channels in Plan 9 when they developed the concurrency system for Go.

[dlsspy]

Go existed in various forms for a very long time. I was learning alef in the mid-nineties. When go came out, it was pretty easy to recognize.

That was a great explanation, though.