Whilst I’m not a programmer, and exist far from the plain of ever pretending to be one – I do have some professional interests in playing with this. I’ll probably update this post a little later with some more, specific information when all can be revealed, but for now here’s a little taster:

root@gotest:~# 6g hello.go
root@gotest:~# 6l hello.6
root@gotest:~# ./6.out
hello, world

It works! This machine is an openvz container, running Ubuntu 9.04 x86_64 and it works a treat, with the only exception that I couldn’t build Go with the standard ‘all.bash’ make script. I had to use the ‘make.bash’ script, instead for it to work – something about probing the network devices not working with the former script. Thanks go to Rob Pike from Google, whom seems to have been working pretty darn hard in the #go-wild IRC channel on Freenode recently!

Update: 34SP.com are now offering Google Go development environments, for those wishing to dabble!

So here’s an experiment. A phrase that I know yields no results on Google (as of this posting date):

Rachel Jennison Harper.

I’ll update when Google does..

Edit: Google has now updated! In no more than 19 hours, too.

In addition to this, I appaer to have made a mini celebrity out of Miss Harper. Given the continued existence of this blog (and the long-standing back-up of Google’s search listings) she won’t be forgotten any time soon!