From 27570bae67926be3a183eded55933aee0d475557 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steven Penny <svnpenn@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 22:35:48 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] new file: go/README.md

modified: go/go-cyg.go
---
 go/README.md | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 go/go-cyg.go |  1 +
 2 files changed, 34 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 go/README.md

diff --git a/go/README.md b/go/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8774a17
--- /dev/null
+++ b/go/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+# Why Go?
+
+Consider this Python script
+
+~~~py
+print("Hello world")
+~~~
+
+You can compile it for Windows like this
+
+    build_exe --bundle-files 0 --compress --optimize hello.py
+    upx -9 hello.exe
+
+and it comes out to 4.16 MB. Now consider this Go script
+
+~~~go
+package main
+import "fmt"
+func main() {
+	fmt.Println("Hello world")
+}
+~~~
+
+You can compile it like this
+
+    go build -ldflags -s hello.go
+    upx -9 hello.exe
+
+and it comes out to 375 KB. Something else to consider is that Python is built
+with Visual C++ 2010. That means that the program you create will not work on
+Windows 7 for example unless the user has installed Visual C++ 2010. Go is built
+with Visual C++ 6, this means that any programs created with Go will work on
+Windows 7 as is.
diff --git a/go/go-cyg.go b/go/go-cyg.go
index 97b717f..11ef2b2 100644
--- a/go/go-cyg.go
+++ b/go/go-cyg.go
@@ -54,4 +54,5 @@ func foxtrot() {
 func main() {  
   foxtrot()
   // parse ini
+  // category: Base
 }