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Originally published on The Go Programming Language Blog, September 6, 2011. http://blog.golang.org/2011/09/laws-of-reflection.html Update #2547 R=golang-dev, r, adg CC=golang-dev https://golang.org/cl/5689054
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<h3 id="go_tour"><a href="http://tour.golang.org/">A Tour of Go</a></h3>
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<li><a href="/doc/codewalk/functions">First-Class Functions in Go</a></li>
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<li><a href="/doc/articles/defer_panic_recover.html">Defer, Panic, and Recover</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://blog.golang.org/2010/09/go-concurrency-patterns-timing-out-and.html">Go Concurrency Patterns: Timing out, moving on</a></li>
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<li><a href="/doc/articles/slices_usage_and_internals.html">Go Slices: usage and internals</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://blog.golang.org/2011/05/gif-decoder-exercise-in-go-interfaces.html">A GIF decoder: an exercise in Go interfaces</a></li>
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<h3>Packages</h3>
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<li><a href="http://blog.golang.org/2011/01/json-and-go.html">JSON and Go</a> - using the <a href="/pkg/encoding/json/">json</a> package.</li>
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<li><a href="http://blog.golang.org/2011/03/gobs-of-data.html">Gobs of data</a> - the design and use of the <a href="/pkg/encoding/gob/">gob</a> package.</li>
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<li><a href="/doc/articles/laws_of_reflection.html">The Laws of Reflection</a> - the fundamentals of the <a href="/pkg/reflect/">reflect</a> package.</li>
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<li><a href="http://blog.golang.org/2011/09/go-image-package.html">The Go image package</a> - the fundamentals of the <a href="/pkg/image/">image</a> package.</li>
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<li><a href="http://blog.golang.org/2011/09/go-imagedraw-package.html">The Go image/draw package</a> - the fundamentals of the <a href="/pkg/image/draw/">image/draw</a> package.</li>
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<li><a href="http://blog.golang.org/2011/03/c-go-cgo.html">C? Go? Cgo!</a> - linking against C code with <a href="/cmd/cgo/">cgo</a>.</li>
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<li><a href="http://blog.golang.org/2011/03/godoc-documenting-go-code.html">Godoc: documenting Go code</a> - writing good documentation for <a href="/cmd/godoc/">godoc</a>.</li>
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<li><a href="http://blog.golang.org/2011/06/profiling-go-programs.html">Profiling Go Programs</a></li>
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A talk by Rob Pike and Andrew Gerrand presented at Google I/O 2011.
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A talk by Andrew Gerrand presented at Google I/O Bootcamp 2011.
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It gives a broad overview of Go's type system and concurrency model
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The language's first public introduction. (See the <a href="talks/go_talk-20091030.pdf">slides in PDF format</a>.) The language has changed since it was made,
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The recording of the event was lost due to a hardware error.
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This talk was also delivered at Sydney University in September 2010. A video
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Go’s approach to concurrency differs from that of many languages, even those
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(such as Erlang) that make concurrency central, yet it has deep roots. The path
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