Thanks everyone for all of the kind birthday wishes. It's been a great couple of days. Yesterday, I held the door at the coffee shop for a lady, her mother, and her young son (just because that's the way my Mother raised me ;) ) and later, as I got ready to pay the barista, the lady paid for my coffee.
Google will probably need to find a new name for their new programming language. Lots of bikeshedding in the comments about what the new name should be, of course.
- Dave Walker
"Hello World" in Go results in a 600k binary. I'm gonna go ahead and guess their linker's not quite optimized yet.