Paul Miller

“Sometimes this sensible initial behavior happens for free, but sometimes the type designer has to work at it.”
― Alan A. A. Donovan, The Go Programming Language

“but normal practice in Go is to deal with the error in the if block and then return, so that the successful execution path is not indented.”
― Alan A. A. Donovan, The Go Programming Language

“It’s all bits at the bottom, of course, but computers operate fundamentally on fixed-size numbers called words,”
― Alan A. A. Donovan, The Go Programming Language

“In contrast, typical Go implementations use variable-size stacks that start small and grow as needed up to a limit on the order of a gigabyte. This lets us use recursion safely and without worrying about overflow.”
― Alan A. A. Donovan, The Go Programming Language