commit | 3bb4be79bad3c8501274b0f4d8c6c6842216a81b | [log] [tgz] |
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author | Rob Pike <r@golang.org> | Wed Jul 18 15:10:04 2018 +1000 |
committer | Rob Pike <r@golang.org> | Thu Jul 19 00:12:12 2018 +0000 |
tree | b258bc8b9bab4d040fd1fd59511354d154726902 | |
parent | 1ff8717aeb0f96f840b8fdc126622bfee3e8fe47 [diff] |
doc: update the Origins section of the FAQ Completely replace the opener, which had become not only stale but bad, expand the discussion of the gopher, and generally provide prose more connected to the present than to the programming world of 2007. Fixes #26107 Change-Id: I5e72f0c81e71d1237fe142dc26114991329a6996 Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/124616 Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
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