@InProceedings{Beton13,
  title =        "{A}n {I}ntroduction to {G}o",
  author=        "Beton,  Rick D.",
  editor=        "Welch, Peter H. and Barnes,  Frederick R. M. and Broenink,  Jan F. and Chalmers,  Kevin and Pedersen,  Jan Bækgaard and Sampson,  Adam T.",
  pages =        "325--326",
  booktitle=     "{C}ommunicating {P}rocess {A}rchitectures 2013",
  isbn=          "978-0-9565409-7-3",
  year=          "2013",
  month=         "nov",
  abstract=      "Go is a new open-source programming language from a team of
     Google's
developers. It provides a modern garbage-collected
     runtime that has
particular support for concurrency. The
     pattern for this is based on
Hoare's CSP, using channels for
     synchronization and communication, and
discouraging the
     direct sharing of variables. Processes are
light-weight
     co-operative threads that the runtime time-slices
     onto
underlying operating system threads; this allows an
     application's
natural concurrency to be expressed as fully
     as needed by the natural
concurrency of the application
     domain.  The presentation provides an
overview of Go's main
     features, covering in particular the unusual
interfaces and
     duck-typing, the reflection and the concurrency.
Focussing
     on concurrency in detail, as an example, a
     simple
web-crawler application is converted step by step to
     operate
concurrently, and at each stage this allows a
     particular feature of
Go's concurrency to be demonstrated."
}