Go

Tonight Maxwell an I went to the Google Developers Meetup here in Bergen for an introduction to the Go programming language. Although Maxwell described it afterward as an introduction to the Go programming language if you already know all the other languages, I think he got a lot out of it. During the workshop period rather than follow the excercises he wanted to build an accounting system that you could interact with on the command line. Since we only had an hour I helped him scale that back to an MVP - a program that would ask for a balance, then a withdrawal amount, and then calculate and report the new balance. Damn if we didn't get tripped up learning Go's IO libraries! He came away with an understanding of how that problem could be more difficult than expected, and we had a lot of fun.

We started doing silly accents at the bus stop on the way home and then things just got really silly. I think the two of us have finally ferretted out the difference between Australia and New Zealand accents though: it's in the lip position. The Australian accent has a wide smile while the New Zealander speaks with tighter, rounded lips. At home he and Zara sat on my bed while I packed for Lisbon, and then we all snuggled together for the next chapter of White Fang. I couldn't resist reading it in accents and translating it on the spot into French, Norwegian, etc. I think I read the first paragraph 20 times with Maxwell rolling on the bed laughing while Zara annoyedly demanded I stop.

These are the sorts of evenings that really make life fabulous!