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Line 23: }} '''Go''', also ~~called~~improperly referred to as '''golang''', is a programming language initially developed at [[Google]]<ref>{{cite news\|url=http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/10/google-go-language/\|title=Google’s Go: A New Programming Language That’s Python Meets C++\|last=Kincaid \|first=Jason \|date=10 November 2009 \|newspaper=TechCrunch \|accessdate=18 January 2010}}</ref> in 2007 by [[Robert Griesemer]], [[Rob Pike]], and [[Ken Thompson]].<ref name="langfaq">{{cite web\|url=http://golang.org/doc/go_faq.html\|title=Language Design FAQ\|date=16 January 2010\|work=golang.org\|accessdate=27 February 2010}}</ref> It is a statically-[[Type system\|typed]] language with syntax loosely derived from that of C, adding [[Garbage collection (computer science)\|garbage collection]], [[type safety]], some [[dynamic typing\|dynamic-typing]] capabilities, additional built-in types such as [[variable-length array]]s and key-value maps, and a large standard library. The language was announced in November 2009 and is now used in some of Google's production systems.<ref name="faq">{{cite news\| url = http://golang.org/doc/faq#Is_Google_using_go_internally \| title = Go FAQ: Is Google using Go internally? \| accessdate = 9 March 2013}}</ref> Go's "gc" compiler targets the [[Linux]], [[Mac OS X]], [[FreeBSD]], [[NetBSD]], [[OpenBSD]], [[Plan 9 from Bell Labs\|Plan 9]], and [[Microsoft Windows]] operating systems and the [[i386]], [[amd64]], and [[ARM architecture\|ARM]] processor architectures.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://golang.org/doc/install.html#tmp_33\|title=Installing Go\|date=11 June 2010\|work=golang.org\|publisher=The Go Authors\|accessdate=11 June 2010}}</ref> A second compiler, gccgo, is a [[GNU Compiler Collection\|GCC]] frontend.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://golang.org/doc/go_faq.html#Implementation\|title=FAQ: Implementation\|date=16 January 2010\|work=golang.org\|accessdate=18 January 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \| url=http://gcc.gnu.org/install/configure.html \| title=Installing GCC: Configuration \| accessdate=3 December 2011 \| quote=Ada, Go and Objective-C++ are not default languages}}</ref>

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