"Effective Go" and "Go Tutorial" is not written for experts. It is a well thought out introduction helping beginners start out with Go.
On Tuesday, 29 June 2010 10:05:48 UTC+2, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > > On 6/28/10, Peter Bourgon <peterb...@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Mayuresh Kathe > > <kathe.m...@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Thank you. > >> Would you please elaborate? > >> This is for that collaborative work on the Go book. > >> Your name and contribution will be included in the book. > > > > This and many other zen-like proverbs on the topic of Go are present > > in the Go Tutorial and Effective Go documents, freely available at > > http://www.golang.org. It would make sense to me that somebody > > compiling a book on the subject should be fairly familiar with those > > two documents as a sort of prerequisite. > > > > Also, I think it would be to everybody's benefit if book-related > > discussions were moved to a separate discussion group. > > Peter, I believe, for the benefit of those who aren't Go programmers > yet, or who haven't understood Go as well as its creators, or even for > those who are good Go programmers and would like to become better, > having this and other book-related (concentrated) discussion on this > list would be essential, else, it might fragment the community. > You could always ignore these discussions, I intend to put up a better > subject line (Go : Book : ...) hence forth. > > About the many other Zen-like proverbs, I'm not really going to push > the documentation into a spiritual experience and all that, the reason > I started this "Philosophy" discussion is because without it, people > mostly wouldn't understand the theory behind certain code > presentation. > So while they might code in a particular way, they wouldn't be aware > of why they are doing so. > > Lastly, I've not referred to the document you suggested, simply > because, those documents was written by experts for experts, or > migrants from other similar programming languges. > What about those who are starting afresh? > If I refer those documents, I'll be writing from the perspective of > someone who already knows a lot about the language. > > No offense against you or anyone else who thinks otherwise, but I > intend to continue this discussion and others like it over a period of > time till I've myself not got a clear picture about what I'm doing > vis-a-vis Go programming, and that's the essence which I intend to put > in the collaborative Go book. > > Best. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
