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achenet on July 11, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Red Hat Technical Writing Style Guide

I second this. Donovan and Kernighan's The Go Programming Language taught me enough about the language to get my first job in it in less than a month.

Four and half years later, I'm still employed as a professional Go programmer.

Thanks, Brian!

throwaway328 on July 12, 2025 [–]

Absolutely on board with you and GP, I forgot Kernighan, I've only looked at a couple of chapters of the C Programming Language, but it was totally wonderful to read yes! He's definitely up there

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