Re: [go-nuts] Compiling very old version of Golang...

2016-07-05 Thread Mike Lee
fascinating, thanks rob :) On Wednesday, July 6, 2016 at 1:02:50 AM UTC+10, Rob 'Commander' Pike wrote: > > There was very little code Go code in the early days. This was bootstrap > time. The path was, by hand: run the compiler, run the linker, run the > binary. Makefiles showed up when there w

Re: [go-nuts] Compiling very old version of Golang...

2016-07-05 Thread Rob Pike
There was very little code Go code in the early days. This was bootstrap time. The path was, by hand: run the compiler, run the linker, run the binary. Makefiles showed up when there was enough of a library to make one worth writing, and went away as soon as was feasible, when the go tool showed up

[go-nuts] Compiling very old version of Golang...

2016-07-04 Thread Mike Lee
Hello, For this question please refer to commit 0cafb9ea3d3d34627e8f492ccafa6ba9b633a213 of the Go repository. This is a very early version of Go (2008). I was just curious as to how it looked at the start. I don't have any experience in compilers/language design, can someone tell me how they