肯尼斯‧藍‧湯普遜 Kenneth Lane Thompson，小名為肯‧湯普遜Ken Thompson ，生於美國紐奧良，計算機科學家與軟體工程師。他與丹尼斯‧里奇齊名同為一九八三年圖靈獎得主。……二零零七年時，湯普遜他和 Robert Griesemer 與 Rob Pike 在 Google 共同創造 Go 語言︰

Ken Thompson states that, initially, Go was purely an experimental project. Referring to himself along with the other original authors of Go, he states:

When the three of us [Thompson, Rob Pike, and Robert Griesemer] got started, it was pure research. The three of us got together and decided that we hated C++. [laughter] … [Returning to Go,] we started off with the idea that all three of us had to be talked into every feature in the language, so there was no extraneous garbage put into the language for any reason.

The history of the language before its first release, back to 2007, is covered in the language’s FAQ.

在此介紹一本《 An Introduction to Programming in Go. 》線上書，有興趣的讀者也可以看看《 Learning Go(lang) 》之文，或有是因為『 docker client 』而來的，歲末年終何不各適其意的呢？

問︰有人講 Go 是 C++ 的 Python，是真的嗎？

答︰未必然吧！它固能『 Hello, 世界』，可是？

問︰可是什麼？？

答︰它會『反重力』── import antigravity ──的嗎？？