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> (P.S. I never understood why Go uses words like "receiver" and "marshaling" that are rarely used elsewhere)

Not sure about receiver, but marshaling has been part of Python's lingo for ages.



The term 'receiver' has a long and distinguished history. Alan Kay used it, Smalltalk used the word almost exclusively. If Zoomers don't know their computer science history that's on them.


> Alan Kay used it, Smalltalk used

So Alan and the language he helped create. That’s double counting the sample of 1


“Marshaling” became pretty ubiquitous as a term in the 1990s with CORBA and Microsoft OLE/COM.




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