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Your Move/Readers Write: Programmers Advocating Go

“Recently I've discovered some information about programmers advocating go to their peers,” writes Steve Colburn, an IT professional and go organizer in Rochester, NY who’s also on the AGA website and EJ team. “The first one is a video from the Game Developers Conference in which Frank Lantz from the NYU Game Center gives a talk about Life and Death and Middle Pair: Go, Poker, and the Sublime (reported in the 10/30 EJ). The second part is part of the Clojure community. The head of the community Rich Hickey advocates the playing of go to people who code in this language. I know of a few active Clojure programmers (Eidogo and IGS programmers) who are all go players. At this year's Clojure Conj, Zach Tellman gave a talk about Playing Go with Clojure  right before the keynote. It's great to hear go being publicized like this to our peers and those who do not know about go.”